Battersea Park’s historic Victorian waterfall may flow again after decades of silence

A Victorian water cascade inside Battersea Park that has been dry since the 1980s could be about to be switched on again.
1905 colourised postcard based on 1899 b&w photograph
The water cascade was added next to the boating lake in 1865 just after the park had been completed, and was novel for using a newly invented form of artificial rock that was so convincing that even geologists were known to be fooled by it.
This Pulhamite Rock was invented by the landscape gardener and terracotta manuf