history
This pumping station is near the small village of Northington in Hampshire it was built as a pressure booster for the strategic oil pipeline constructed in World War 2 between the village of Hamble in Hampshire and Aldermaston in Berkshire.
The main building is separated into two parts, one housing the electric motor with a drive shaft connecting to the pump in the adjoining plant room. Very little remains of the pump or its motor save for some foundation plates and pump bearing housings, there is a second building which was an electrical bunker complete with blast walls. the other 2 buildings have sadly gone.
The pipeline is still in use today between Hamble (Fawley oil refinery) and Aldermaston but without the need for a booster pump. It is said that following the D DAY invasion this pipeline was used to supply some of the fuel/oil pumped across the channel in the famous 'PLUTO' Pipe Line Under The Ocean.
explore,
the highways dept are using the place to store road chippings while doing local road repairs. took 3 visits before no-one was there ...luckily very local as we walk the dogs in near by woods
electric building
couldn't get close to this little block on the end (too overgrown) so guessing toilets ??
fly tippers nearly filled half the pump building
This pumping station is near the small village of Northington in Hampshire it was built as a pressure booster for the strategic oil pipeline constructed in World War 2 between the village of Hamble in Hampshire and Aldermaston in Berkshire.
The main building is separated into two parts, one housing the electric motor with a drive shaft connecting to the pump in the adjoining plant room. Very little remains of the pump or its motor save for some foundation plates and pump bearing housings, there is a second building which was an electrical bunker complete with blast walls. the other 2 buildings have sadly gone.
The pipeline is still in use today between Hamble (Fawley oil refinery) and Aldermaston but without the need for a booster pump. It is said that following the D DAY invasion this pipeline was used to supply some of the fuel/oil pumped across the channel in the famous 'PLUTO' Pipe Line Under The Ocean.
explore,
the highways dept are using the place to store road chippings while doing local road repairs. took 3 visits before no-one was there ...luckily very local as we walk the dogs in near by woods
electric building
couldn't get close to this little block on the end (too overgrown) so guessing toilets ??
fly tippers nearly filled half the pump building
