Fitting Shop
Where volunteers machine, mend and make parts for restoration.
About this project
This is the working workshop behind much of the restoration at Crossness. When Thames Water handed over the 1865 workshop, it came with old but working machine tools. Volunteers still use them to make jigs, repair components and produce parts for the engines and buildings.
It is not a museum of tools under glass. It is where jigs are made, metal is cut and fitted, and the practical problems of a Grade I engine house get solved day by day. Without this shop, projects such as Prince Consort and Victoria would move far more slowly.
Visitors may see the Fitting Shop on open days depending on activity and access. For the wider programme of volunteer-led work, see all projects and the Volunteer page.
Volunteer-led work at Crossness. Want to help? See roles and the intention form on the Volunteer page.