Below is it removed. It sat upon a steel girder, embedded in both sides of the hall walls:
Lead pipework that leads to the water cylinder below:
The only, single piece of original ceiling in the house in the picture below, which was sitting above the water tank. The lead piping leading through the ceiling actually leaves through the roof and acts as an overflow for the back-boiler system (from the ground floor rear room fireplace).
Lead piping - yikes! I can only wonder how much brain damage was caused by lead poisoning to various owners and occupants of that home since whenever that cistern system was installed.
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