| Administrative History | An artesian well was sunk in 1851, to supply the Bank of England with its own water. According to Joseph Prestwich 'Appendix [to the Woolwich and Reading Series]', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 10 (1854), p143, the section was printed for private distribution. Its donor, Robert Mylne, had a successful consulting engineering practice specialising in water supply structures such as wells, reservoirs and drainage. The well was presumably one of his works. |