Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

Crossness Pumping Station on the Thames, near Plumstead, London.





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Looks like Golders Green Synagogue.

Fantastic work of art for a pumping station in comparasing modern whitewashed walls.

A different temple, the Mosque ("Dampfmaschinenhaus für Sansscouci", the pumping station for the great fountain in Potsdam's Sanssouci castle park.

There are quite a few pumping stations in Potsdam (and neighboring parts of Berlin) - not surprising, since their are/were quite a few castles around there.

One of my favourites is the Dairy in the New Garden: originally the dairy to supply the royal court, with stables and sheds for the cows, grazing on the surrounding land to produce milk for the manufacture of butter and cheese.
In 1857 the buildings were slightly changed to become the engine or pump house to water the New Garden.
In 1928 a restaurant was established in the building making it the most popular café, beer house and restaurant in Potsdam until WWII.
Since the early 1990's is a restaurant and café again - said to be the most beautifully situated brewpub in Germany


(In the front, the "water taxi" is a regular public transport line)

The pumping station of the Babelsberg castle was used for the fountains in the park there ...


[in the background, the famous Gliniecke Bridge]

... and for this geyser, which has been in 1845 the highest fountain in Berlin and Potsdam

Interesting pictures and stories - thanks - enjoyed it

Collage of the tunnel at Tunnel Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing the beginning, a look backwards up the tunnel and a view of the beach at the end of the tunnel. (Wikimedia Commons)

18th C Smuggler's tunnel Hastings UK.

That's where my old Mum was born.

Not in the tunnel, but not far away....

Tuggler's smunnel.

Painting of the city walls in Visby on the island of Gotland.

A "tunnel" and a wall: Tunnelvision, in Columbia, South Carolina



Inspired by a dream, one South Carolina artist created the otherworldly mural known as Tunnelvision to create the illusion of a road to another world.

Walls or not walls:
An art church known as Reading Between The Lines, designed by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh




Looz, Limburg, Belgium

300 meters of graffiti at Leake Street, aka "Banksy Tunnel" or "Graffiti Tunnel", Lambeth, London, England, UK

Western Wall tunnels, Israel

Mesa Arch, USA