Some more undocumented small pump houses, mostly from the NW and Midlands although one is near Leeds since I sometimes have to go over there.
Photos are mostly phone.
Many of these places are completely empty and not really worth recording, so just a single example to begin with near Whitchurch, marked as an ‘engine house’ on the map.
It’s odd in that it actually looks like a little house, apparently built in the same style and at the same time (ca 1900) as the larger house up the hill it presumably served.
Just empty plinths on the ground floor and nothing upstairs.
The second one, near Oakamoor, at least has some recognisable remains; the base of a Tangye pump and the electric motor which used to drive it.
Tangye were a well known maker of pumps and other machinery - the name still lives on, now associated with hydraulic lifting equipment.
I found a picture on the web of what looks like the same pump being rescued from a pump house in Hampshire.
The rest of it seems to have been dumped down a hole in the floor.
The third, just north of Leeds, features two Mather and Platt ‘Plurovane’ centrifugal pumps, developed in the 1930s.
The pumps are the cylindrical things on the plinths at the junctions of the piping.
There were a couple of hydraulic rams in this area at one stage, and this pump house may have been their replacement.
Pictures off the web showing how the pumps would have been driven by electric motors (now gone), and an old Plurovane being renovated.
The fourth, near Uttoxeter, appears as an ‘engine house’ on maps between 1879 and 1901.
The pump is still there, but whatever drove it has gone - it may have been steam-powered at one stage judging by the boiler dumped outside.
I didn’t notice a maker’s name, so several photos from different angles in case anyone know what sort it is - these things all look rather similar.
A little electric pump (Beresford), possibly for priming (?)
The last one, north of Blackburn, is the most complete in the sense that both pump and engine are still there.
What’s missing is the house bit, which was evidently made out of wood and corrugated iron, pieces of which are scattered around.
Early maps show a well at this position, replaced by 1930 by a ‘hydraulic ram’ although the footprint corresponds to something larger.
The paraffin engine in the foreground drove the pump in the background.
The pump is by Evans, who have featured in a previous collection of pump houses.
The well it was pumping from is under one of the heavy sandstone slabs.
Gotta have an amphibian - almost always one somewhere in these damp places.
This warty little creature was hiding under a bit of corrugated iron.
Photos are mostly phone.
Many of these places are completely empty and not really worth recording, so just a single example to begin with near Whitchurch, marked as an ‘engine house’ on the map.
It’s odd in that it actually looks like a little house, apparently built in the same style and at the same time (ca 1900) as the larger house up the hill it presumably served.
Just empty plinths on the ground floor and nothing upstairs.
The second one, near Oakamoor, at least has some recognisable remains; the base of a Tangye pump and the electric motor which used to drive it.
Tangye were a well known maker of pumps and other machinery - the name still lives on, now associated with hydraulic lifting equipment.
I found a picture on the web of what looks like the same pump being rescued from a pump house in Hampshire.
The rest of it seems to have been dumped down a hole in the floor.
The third, just north of Leeds, features two Mather and Platt ‘Plurovane’ centrifugal pumps, developed in the 1930s.
The pumps are the cylindrical things on the plinths at the junctions of the piping.
There were a couple of hydraulic rams in this area at one stage, and this pump house may have been their replacement.
Pictures off the web showing how the pumps would have been driven by electric motors (now gone), and an old Plurovane being renovated.
The fourth, near Uttoxeter, appears as an ‘engine house’ on maps between 1879 and 1901.
The pump is still there, but whatever drove it has gone - it may have been steam-powered at one stage judging by the boiler dumped outside.
I didn’t notice a maker’s name, so several photos from different angles in case anyone know what sort it is - these things all look rather similar.
A little electric pump (Beresford), possibly for priming (?)
The last one, north of Blackburn, is the most complete in the sense that both pump and engine are still there.
What’s missing is the house bit, which was evidently made out of wood and corrugated iron, pieces of which are scattered around.
Early maps show a well at this position, replaced by 1930 by a ‘hydraulic ram’ although the footprint corresponds to something larger.
The paraffin engine in the foreground drove the pump in the background.
The pump is by Evans, who have featured in a previous collection of pump houses.
The well it was pumping from is under one of the heavy sandstone slabs.
Gotta have an amphibian - almost always one somewhere in these damp places.
This warty little creature was hiding under a bit of corrugated iron.
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