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The Waterfront is a super-regional open air shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead, and Munhall near Pittsburgh. The shopping mall sits on land once occupied by U.S. Steel 's Homestead Steel Works plant, which closed in 1986.
The Royal Albert Dock [1] is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England.Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood.
The square surrounded by the National Waterfront Museum, the old Pump House and shopping area contains a statue of Dylan Thomas. Nearby places. Swansea beach;
The Pump House contains the steam-driven pumping engines which supplied power for the hydraulic cranes and the capstans which were used around the dock, [6] and the Power Hall contains a variety of other engines. [7] The blacksmith's forge was where the ironwork for the canal and its boats was made. A resident blacksmith works in the forge. [8]
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.
The pump house was brought back into village control in 2023. More: 'Exciting changes' are planned for this former KDB building in Peoria Heights. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: ...
The pump house, whose first element was built in 1837, preserves a feature of the old canal, which relied on locks and pumps to move vessels over the low divide of the Delmarva Peninsula between Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. Because there are no large rivers on the peninsula, water had to be pumped uphill to fill the upper canal and locks.
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