David Murray
Published: 2017-12-03
Total Pages: 134
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Excerpt from The York Buildings Company: A Chapter in Scotch History, Read Before the Institutes of Bankers and Chartered Accountants, Glasgow, 19th February 1883 Since the success of the New River Scheme, projected by Sir Hugh Middleton in 1609, an extraneous water supply had become a necessity in London, and in the course of the 17th century there were established the Thames, London Bridge, and Shadwell Companies, and the Hampstead Conduit.2 At York Buildings the water3 was led from the river into canals furnished with sluices, and thence pumped up by horse power to cisterns on the higher ground, from which it was conveyed to the customers' houses by service pipes connected with two 7-inch elmwood mains laid through the streets.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.