Dalton Pumping Station - Cold Hesledon - January 2012
Visited with NickUK
We visited this place prior to heading over to Ushaw, very impressive indeed, sitting on the roof on the windiest day of the year was... interesting at best
A lot smaller than I imagined but hey ho...
"Dalton Pumping Station is a Victorian Gothic building in the village of Cold Hesledon, County Durham. It was designed by Thomas Hawksley, for the Sunderland and South Shields Water company and built in 1873.
The engine house contains a pair of 72" single-acting non-rotative Cornish beam engines by Davy Bros of Sheffield, dating from the 1870s when the complex was built. (Pumping engines of this period were more often of a double-acting rotative design (as seen at nearby Ryhope); the use of Cornish engines here seems to be due to the great depth of the well - some 450 feet.) The site suffered for many years from subsidence due to nearby mine workings; this in part led to the engines being decommissioned in the 1940s, and to the demolition in the 1960s of the striking campanile-like top section of the central tower/chimney."
Cheers
Visited with NickUK
We visited this place prior to heading over to Ushaw, very impressive indeed, sitting on the roof on the windiest day of the year was... interesting at best
A lot smaller than I imagined but hey ho...
"Dalton Pumping Station is a Victorian Gothic building in the village of Cold Hesledon, County Durham. It was designed by Thomas Hawksley, for the Sunderland and South Shields Water company and built in 1873.
The engine house contains a pair of 72" single-acting non-rotative Cornish beam engines by Davy Bros of Sheffield, dating from the 1870s when the complex was built. (Pumping engines of this period were more often of a double-acting rotative design (as seen at nearby Ryhope); the use of Cornish engines here seems to be due to the great depth of the well - some 450 feet.) The site suffered for many years from subsidence due to nearby mine workings; this in part led to the engines being decommissioned in the 1940s, and to the demolition in the 1960s of the striking campanile-like top section of the central tower/chimney."
Cheers
