Description: Showing the old water pumping station. This took drains water from the main drains which had arrived at this point through gravity and pumped it to Stoke Bardolph and the main sewage-water treatment works and also drew clean water from there. Nottingham was well ahead of its time in Victorian water technologies. By 1831, the Trent Waterworks Company's brilliant engineer, Thomas Hawksley, had designed the first constant high pressure supply, which prevented contamination from entering the mains. In 1845, when an Act merged all the small companies into the Nottingham Waterworks Company, Hawksley turned to the sandstone beds under the city, which stored vast quantities of very pure water. Three pumping stations and five reservoirs were built to take advantage of this natural resource from 1850-1880, when Nottingham Corporation Water Department took over responsibility. Their engineer, the oddly-named but even more gifted Marriott Ogle Tarbotton, brought still more advances, beginning with the lavish classically-designed Papplewick pumping station of 1884 (now restored). He also started the modern sewage system, with the Stoke Bardolph sewage disposal works, and he was the world's first municipal engineer to use subways under the streets to carry public services. His legacy includes Burton Joyce, the first station to pump water from boreholes to Nottingham in 1898. Five more borehole stations were built from 1945-1969, by which time they supplied around 23 million gallons a day.