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Edit: Don't take this as gospel, but I think it's a pressure-balancing tower; the height is chosen to match the water table somewhere like Harrow. I think it's part of the 'super ring main' around London, documented in the Kew Bridge Steam Museum (itself an old water pumping station). ''I remember hearing something like that back when it opened a decade(?) ago. But then again, I've heard lots of people put forward the barometer theory since then, too. Help! -- [[Earle]]''

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Edit: Don't take this as gospel, but I think it's a pressure-balancing tower; the height is chosen to match the water table somewhere like Harrow. I think it's part of the 'super ring main' around London, documented in the Kew Bridge Steam Museum (itself an old water pumping station).

''I remember hearing something like that back when it opened a decade(?) ago. But then again, I've heard lots of people put forward the barometer theory since then, too. Help! -- [[Earle]]''

Intersection between the A3220 to the north, Holland Park Avenue to the east, Holland Road to the south and a road to the west which splits into the Uxbridge Road to the north side and Shepherd's Bush Green to the south side of Shepherd's Bush Common.

It has a rather unusual piece of art in the middle of it which is a blue and clear plastic water tower - sponsored by Thames Water.

Addition: I think that this 'statue' is actually a barometer. The higher the water, the higher the pressure. Can anyone corroborate?

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