Having spent a week with the family in a lodge over the Christmas period, eaten my own body weight in mince pies and brandy butter I needed to get out for some peace/quiet/exercise. The area local to where I was staying didn't have much in the way of explores that I hadn't already done so this little lot was the best I could come up with.
Cheadle water works.
History on this has been impossible to find unfortunately.
I visited the small brick hut many years ago but it was locked up tight. The old OS maps state pump house so I had promised to revisit.
Now accessible i know there isn't a pump inside at all, there is however a chlorinator set up but not of a type I've seen before. The Wallace and Tiernan flow driven metering/dosing pump was powered by the flow of water from the covered reservoir which turned an impeller which in turn drove a shaft that operated the dosing pump to add chlorine to the water.
The amount of Chlorine dosed and the frequency of the dose was adjusted by altering the stroke length of the pump with the knobs on either end of said pump.
Chlorinator
The covered reservoir
The water works above was likely replaced by this large borehole pump down the valley at Greatgate. This one is also now disused but sealed up tight.
And this is the latest and greatest. Also in Greatgate but just over the road. In use and secure as you can imagine but with nice big windows to take a peek through. Inside are a couple of modern pumps and a huge WH Allen diesel engine pump with a very retro looking control panel. I did take some photos through the window but unfortunately they didn't come out too clear
And off home I go...
Cheadle water works.
History on this has been impossible to find unfortunately.
I visited the small brick hut many years ago but it was locked up tight. The old OS maps state pump house so I had promised to revisit.
Now accessible i know there isn't a pump inside at all, there is however a chlorinator set up but not of a type I've seen before. The Wallace and Tiernan flow driven metering/dosing pump was powered by the flow of water from the covered reservoir which turned an impeller which in turn drove a shaft that operated the dosing pump to add chlorine to the water.
The amount of Chlorine dosed and the frequency of the dose was adjusted by altering the stroke length of the pump with the knobs on either end of said pump.
Chlorinator
The covered reservoir
The water works above was likely replaced by this large borehole pump down the valley at Greatgate. This one is also now disused but sealed up tight.
And this is the latest and greatest. Also in Greatgate but just over the road. In use and secure as you can imagine but with nice big windows to take a peek through. Inside are a couple of modern pumps and a huge WH Allen diesel engine pump with a very retro looking control panel. I did take some photos through the window but unfortunately they didn't come out too clear
And off home I go...
