Introduction
Another nice little pump house found by the so-called 'pump people' duo
. It’s a fairly trivial one but it hasn’t been documented at all online so thought it would still be worthy posting it, rather than just leaving the photos on my computer for no one to ever see.
Information & History
I’ve searched and searched, and I can’t seem to find any information at all about this particular pumping installation. It is situated on an incline between Alder Carr Plantation and Cubitt’s Hill Wood between the villages of Hempnall and Tasburgh, Norfolk. I am uncertain of the exact purpose of this pump house. There is a pipe that runs between the pond and the pump house but I am unsure if this acted as an input or an output. I am learning towards input, it looks as though the pump house supplied water from the valley pond/stream to a nearby location uphill. In Cubitt’s Hill Wood there is a large mesh animal enclosure that appears disused so it may have supplied water to that.
The pump house itself contains a lovely Lister diesel engine, this one is a 3-cylinder air-cooled ‘HB’ type with a power output of 35 HP and appears to be more modern than some of the other ones me and Jake have seen recently. The engine powered a SPP Sigmund Pulseometer pump (Type: LEX3). SPP used to be based in Reading and has been around since 1875.
The pump house doesn’t appear on any of the old OS Maps, and I could only find a reference to it on a modern OS StreetView map.
The Explore
I first checked this place out at the end of summer last year when I first spotted it on maps. I grabbed some phone photos but wanted to go back with the camera to get some better shots. There is parking on the road nearby and after 5/10 minutes of traipsing through hilly woodland, we reached the station. It’s actually a really nice area and would go there again in future for a nice walk in the summer. Surprisingly picturesque and doesn’t even feel like Norfolk when you are there!
Photos
Starting with externals on the approach to the Pump House. it looks as though there may have been an oil tank here originally judging by the concrete blocks:
The pump house was constructed with a very basic concrete pre-fab design with wooden doors to the front and a couple of windows and a ventilation point next to the engine.
Heading inside:
A lot of these smaller pumping stations have these small hand pumps. These are air pumps and are used to create a vacuum suction in a centrifugal pump priming line and pull into the pump for priming.
And finally a pic of the lovely surroundings:
Thanks for looking!
Another nice little pump house found by the so-called 'pump people' duo
. It’s a fairly trivial one but it hasn’t been documented at all online so thought it would still be worthy posting it, rather than just leaving the photos on my computer for no one to ever see.Information & History
I’ve searched and searched, and I can’t seem to find any information at all about this particular pumping installation. It is situated on an incline between Alder Carr Plantation and Cubitt’s Hill Wood between the villages of Hempnall and Tasburgh, Norfolk. I am uncertain of the exact purpose of this pump house. There is a pipe that runs between the pond and the pump house but I am unsure if this acted as an input or an output. I am learning towards input, it looks as though the pump house supplied water from the valley pond/stream to a nearby location uphill. In Cubitt’s Hill Wood there is a large mesh animal enclosure that appears disused so it may have supplied water to that.
The pump house itself contains a lovely Lister diesel engine, this one is a 3-cylinder air-cooled ‘HB’ type with a power output of 35 HP and appears to be more modern than some of the other ones me and Jake have seen recently. The engine powered a SPP Sigmund Pulseometer pump (Type: LEX3). SPP used to be based in Reading and has been around since 1875.
The pump house doesn’t appear on any of the old OS Maps, and I could only find a reference to it on a modern OS StreetView map.
The Explore
I first checked this place out at the end of summer last year when I first spotted it on maps. I grabbed some phone photos but wanted to go back with the camera to get some better shots. There is parking on the road nearby and after 5/10 minutes of traipsing through hilly woodland, we reached the station. It’s actually a really nice area and would go there again in future for a nice walk in the summer. Surprisingly picturesque and doesn’t even feel like Norfolk when you are there!
Photos
Starting with externals on the approach to the Pump House. it looks as though there may have been an oil tank here originally judging by the concrete blocks:
The pump house was constructed with a very basic concrete pre-fab design with wooden doors to the front and a couple of windows and a ventilation point next to the engine.
Heading inside:
A lot of these smaller pumping stations have these small hand pumps. These are air pumps and are used to create a vacuum suction in a centrifugal pump priming line and pull into the pump for priming.
And finally a pic of the lovely surroundings:
Thanks for looking!
