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Pump House (Belfast)

United Kingdom / Northern Ireland / Belfast
 pumping station, visitors / park center, scheduled ancient monument

The Pump House is one of the few most significant remaining heritage buildings from the Titanic technology era. The original part of the building was constructed in the 1880s to serve the Alexandra Graving Dock. It was extended significantly to cater for the massive new Thompson Graving Dock, which opened in 1911. Long and rectangular, designed in late Victorian eclectic style, the building featured the most advanced state-of-the-art engineering of its day. Its hugely powerful pumping engines, housed deep in the building, could drain a full dock of 23 millions gallons of water in 110 minutes. A series of underground tunnels leading from near the pumps, could take workers beneath both docks. The Pump House, which still operates, is now, like the Thompson Graving Dock, part of the Northern Ireland Science Park. Today the Pump-House comprises a Visitor Centre & Café.
www.nisp.co.uk/archive/titanic/pdfs/Titanic's%20Dock%20and%20Pump%20House%20leaflet%20_%20web%20version.pdf
www.discovernorthernireland.com/Titanic-s-Dock-and-Pump...
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Coordinates:   54°36'52"N   5°54'6"W
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