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Construction of the Engine House at Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891

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Harold Arthur Blomfield
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(Courtesy of Charles Blomfield, Wagga Wagga)

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Blomfield, Harold Arthur

Private collection

Water

Finding and securing enough water for Sydney's needs has been a challenge since the arrival of the Europeans in 1788, and over two centuries water supply has prompted some of the largest engineering schemes undertaken in Sydney.

Construction

Water supply

Ryde Pumping Station

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Water pumping station supplying Sydney's northern suburbs.

Sydney Water

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Organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of Sydney's water supply, formed in 1880 when these functions were taken from the Sydney City Council. Reformed a number of times by legislation, the organisation was corporatised in 1995 but remains state-owned.

Ryde

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Residential and commercial suburb on north shore of Parramatta River, named after the town on the Isle of Wight where Mary Turner, an early resident in the area had been born. It was the third British settlement in Australia after Sydney and Parramatta.

West Ryde

North-western residential suburb which began to be subdivided after the building of the railway line from Homebush to Hornsby in 1886. It is the site of Ryde Pumping Station, the largest water pumping station in Australia.

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