The originalLee Tunnel[edit]Thames Water are boring a sewage tunnel from Abbey Mills to Beckton Sewage Works to handle the 16 million tons of overflow sewage that is discharged into the River Lea each year.[4] Construction is expected to be completed in December 2015, and the tunnel boring machine's name, 'Busy Lizzie', was chosen via a competition open to local school children.

As a film location[edit]

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2015)B Station represented Arkham Asylum in the 2005 film Batman Begins.[5][6] and was also used as the location for the "Cosy Prisons" video shoot by Norwegian pop band a-ha on 4 March 2006.[7]

In 2007, the second show in season 1 of Derren Brown's Trick or Treat series was partially filmed at the site in which two of three paintings were cut with a knife as part of a trick.

The disused and stripped out C Station was used in the 2008 film Franklyn.

The C Station was used in Series 2 Episode 4 of the TV series Primeval.

References[edit]Jump up ^ McConnell, Sara (4 January 2006). "An Olympic walk in East London". Times Online. Retrieved 11 February 2011. ...one of Londons most startling sites Abbey Mills Pumping Station with its red and green Moorish domes. Built in 1863 as part of Londons then new sewage system, it was nicknamed the Cathedral of Sewage.Jump up ^ Mills, A.D. (2010). A Dictionary of London Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780199566785.Jump up ^ West Ham: Stratford Abbey, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 112-14 Date accessed: 20 February 2007