This is a collection of small electrically-powered pumping places, mostly found when looking for something water-related nearby.
In order of age and interest, sources of motive power for pumps go water&wind > coal (steam) > oil > electricity, so these electrical setups are at the bottom of the heap.
Photos are phone, with the date range the pump house appears on maps in brackets.
Lyonshall, Herefordshire (1902 -1927).
This example is typical of a site that once had a hydraulic ram which then got replaced by a small electric pump.
The ram used to be in the concrete structure at the front, with its drive pipe still attached.
Now the little hut at the back contains an electrically-driven Lister pump, of the ‘ejector’ or entrainment sort.
Repton, Derbyshire (after 1954).
A random roadside pumping station which looked like it’d been broken into by pikies.
Not much to see except tiles and some type of wall mounted device by Harland Engineering, who made all sorts of things including pumps.
The pump here is probably at the bottom of the well.
Kirkburton, Yorkshire (1892 - 1904).
Called a “Pumping Station (drainage)” this appears on maps at the same time as the nearby West Riding Lunatic Asylum (later Stanley Royd) so they may have been connected.
The locals have demolished it quite thoroughly, but the equipment is still there - two symmetrically arranged Weir centrifugal pumps, driven by Brook Compton motors.
The reservoir behind is full of mud.
Glan-yr-Afron, Flintshire (after 1949).
Not labelled on maps but near the site of a hydraulic pump (which wasn’t there), this seems to have been a water-treatment plant, with a Worthington-Simpson centrifugal.
Lydbrook, Gloucestershire (1903 - 1918).
The pump house for the Edison Swan Cable Works, which contains a blue Hill Dicklow pump, and two muddy Mather&Platt centrifugals.
View from across the river.
Shaft down to the river, presumably where the water went in and out.
The electric motors were made by British Thomson-Houston Co Ltd (BTH), who along with Edison Swan Electric Co. became part of Associated Electrical industries (AEI), who in turn got taken over by someone else.
This is a common theme with motor and pump manufacturers - too many firms making similar products.
Indeed Weir Pumps acquired some of the makes pictured above - Harland, Worthington-Simpson (in part) and Mather&Platt - and are now themselves part of a larger conglomerate.
In order of age and interest, sources of motive power for pumps go water&wind > coal (steam) > oil > electricity, so these electrical setups are at the bottom of the heap.
Photos are phone, with the date range the pump house appears on maps in brackets.
Lyonshall, Herefordshire (1902 -1927).
This example is typical of a site that once had a hydraulic ram which then got replaced by a small electric pump.
The ram used to be in the concrete structure at the front, with its drive pipe still attached.
Now the little hut at the back contains an electrically-driven Lister pump, of the ‘ejector’ or entrainment sort.
Repton, Derbyshire (after 1954).
A random roadside pumping station which looked like it’d been broken into by pikies.
Not much to see except tiles and some type of wall mounted device by Harland Engineering, who made all sorts of things including pumps.
The pump here is probably at the bottom of the well.
Kirkburton, Yorkshire (1892 - 1904).
Called a “Pumping Station (drainage)” this appears on maps at the same time as the nearby West Riding Lunatic Asylum (later Stanley Royd) so they may have been connected.
The locals have demolished it quite thoroughly, but the equipment is still there - two symmetrically arranged Weir centrifugal pumps, driven by Brook Compton motors.
The reservoir behind is full of mud.
Glan-yr-Afron, Flintshire (after 1949).
Not labelled on maps but near the site of a hydraulic pump (which wasn’t there), this seems to have been a water-treatment plant, with a Worthington-Simpson centrifugal.
Lydbrook, Gloucestershire (1903 - 1918).
The pump house for the Edison Swan Cable Works, which contains a blue Hill Dicklow pump, and two muddy Mather&Platt centrifugals.
View from across the river.
Shaft down to the river, presumably where the water went in and out.
The electric motors were made by British Thomson-Houston Co Ltd (BTH), who along with Edison Swan Electric Co. became part of Associated Electrical industries (AEI), who in turn got taken over by someone else.
This is a common theme with motor and pump manufacturers - too many firms making similar products.
Indeed Weir Pumps acquired some of the makes pictured above - Harland, Worthington-Simpson (in part) and Mather&Platt - and are now themselves part of a larger conglomerate.
