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History & Heritage

International, Alaska Water History and Glen Canyon Dam

EWRI Friends Visit London Water & Steam Museum and Union Chain Bridge- IHCEL

Wednesday, May 24, 2023
1:51 PM – 2:09 PM PDT
Room: La Sirena III
“EWRI Friends Visit London Water & Steam Museum and Union Chain Bridge- IHCEL”

William P. Bulloch, P.E., D.WRE, 1 Kathlie S. Jeng Bulloch, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM, 2 and Jerry Rogers, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, Distinguished M. ASCE 3

1 bbulloch@hotmail.com Principal, Utility Revenue Management Company Inc., 99 Detering Street, Suite 130, Houston, TX 77007
2 Kathlie.Bulloch@houstontx.gov City Engineer, Director of Engineering Department, 448 State Hwy.75 North, The City of Huntsville, Huntsville, Texas 77320
3 rogers.jerry@att.net U. of Houston CEE Retired Professor Emeritus, 12127 Old Oaks Drive, Houston, TX 77024



ABSTRACT
We strongly recommend EWRI people visit the London Water and Steam Museum. This presentation includes many slides of this outstanding museum at the Kew tube station. London Museum of Water & Steam features artefacts and interactive exhibits on water. On 26 October, 2018, David Gilbert and Jerry Rogers toured the London Museum of Water and Steam, https://www.waterandsteam.org.uk/, located at Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, London TW8 0EN near Kew Station. Kew Bridge Pumping Station was originally opened in 1838 by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. In 1999, the United Kingdom government Department for Culture, Media and Sport described Kew Bridge pumping station as "the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain." The heart of the museum showcases a majestic collection of steam pumping engines.

In addition, there will be an ASCE, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and Japan Society of Civil Engineers INTERNATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK plaque ceremony for the 202 year- old Union Chain Suspension Bridge at Berwick Upon the Tweed. Note: Samuel Brown and Union Chain Bridge: Gordon Miller, Friends of the Union Bridge, 300 pp., 135 photographs, 15.5 GBP www.unionbridgefriends.com . Also, there was a 2020 book edited by Roland Paxton, Spanning the Centuries, 80pp., available from Friends of the Union Bridge.