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Museum of Power - outdoor exhbit
by Chris Allen
for square TL8309
This is a Worthington Simpson steam fire pump built about 1950 and used at the... (more)
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Museum of Power - exhibit, artwork and grassy space
by Chris Allen
for square TL8309
The position and view direction are a best guess based on the aerial photograph... (more)
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Twyford Pumping Station - plumbing in the boiler house
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
Seen during the special invitation only event to commemorate the return to steam... (more)
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Mill Meece pumping Station - steam pump
by Chris Allen
for square SJ8233
By W E Hancock of Hanley and the only example I can recall. This is a scotch... (more)
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Bradford Industrial Museum - boiler feed pump
by Chris Allen
for square SE1835
A J P Hall of Peterborough inverted vertical single cylinder non-rotative pump.... (more)
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Boiler Feeder Pump, Bolton Steam Museum
by David Dixon
for square SD6909
Water cannot simply be added to a boiler working under steam by turning a tap;... (more)
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Westonzoyland Pumping Station - is it a steam engine?
by Chris Allen
for square ST3332
Well, first of all - what is it?
It is a Spirax Sarco 'Ogden pump'.... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station – ram pump
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SJ8333
This is the pump attached to the 1914 Ashton Frost engine in 1924 which pumped... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, governor
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, crosshead level
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, view from the access stairs
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, basement
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Twyford Pumping Station - pumps below the steam engine
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
Hathorn, Davey & Co Ltd of Leeds built this inverted vertical triple... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station – crank lubrication
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SJ8333
This is the 1914 Ashton Frost engine. For more information see... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station – working engine
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SJ8333
This is the 1914 Ashton Frost engine, looking along the connecting rod and trunk... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station – working engine
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SJ8333
This is the 1914 Ashton Frost engine. For more information see... (more)
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Etruria Industrial Museum - explaining the Pulsometer pump
by Chris Allen
for square SJ8746
The Museum is in a mill that ground china stone and bone for the pottery... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, cylinder level
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, surface condenser
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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South Staffordshire Water Works Company museum
by Chris Allen
for square SK0319
In the former boiler house at Brindley Bank Pumping Station. This has now been... (more)
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Westonzoyland Pumping Station - steam pump
by Chris Allen
for square ST3332
A wall mounted inverted vertical rotative steam pump by A G Mumford of... (more)
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SS Margaret Hill - steam feed pumps
by Chris Allen
for square SU3912
Opportunities to visit steam turbine powered ships are now few and far between... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, cylinder level
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Twyford Pumping Station - crowded house
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
Hathorn, Davey & Co Ltd of Leeds built this inverted vertical triple... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station - steam engines
by Chris Allen
for square SJ8333
A pair of horizontal tandem compound rotative steam pumping engines. The pumps... (more)
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum - Bull engine workings
by Chris Allen
for square TQ1878
Edward Bull developed this form of non-rotative Cornish engine with the cylinder... (more)
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Scapa Flow Visitor Centre - steam pumps
by Chris Allen
for square ND3094
Three Worthington horizontal duplex triple expansion non-rotative steam pumping... (more)
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Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam engine
by Chris Allen
for square TL4659
This is underneath the working Davey Differential pumping engine. This shows... (more)
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Cambridge Museum of Technology - outdoor exhibits
by Chris Hodrien
for square TL4659
The big red object is a Mather and Platt horizontal duplex non-rotative steam... (more)
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Papplewick Pumping Station - pump rods and steam winch
by Chris Allen
for square SK5852
This view is in the basement of the engine house between the two single cylinder... (more)
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Lewis Merthyr Colliery - wrecked steam pump
by Chris Allen
for square ST0491
This is now the Rhondda Heritage Park but was in 1983 a working NCB colliery... (more)
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Upper Cherry Garden Waterworks - steam pumping engine
by Chris Allen
for square TR2038
One of the two that were the first of their type in the UK and now preserved... (more)
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Aller Moor Pumping Station - Southlake drainage engine
by Chris Allen
for square ST3530
When I took this the former land drainage pumping at Allermoor had two preserved... (more)
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Welland Steam Rally - the watering station
by Chris Allen
for square SO8040
The portable bowser for supplying traction engines with water is filled here... (more)
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Klondyke Mill Steam Party - steam pump
by Chris Allen
for square SK1528
This pump is mounted on a trolley and can presumably be used to pump water for... (more)
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Llywernog Mine - Silver Mountain Experience, Tangyes Special Pump
by Chris Allen
for square SN7380
A non-rotative steam pump by Tangyes of Cornwall Works, Smethwick. The 12"... (more)
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Mill Meece Pumping Station - restored steam pump
by Chris Allen
for square SJ8333
This is a Joseph Evans rotative steam pump built probably in the Second World... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, flywheel
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Cottingham Pumping Station - steam engine, gauge board
by Chris Allen
for square TA0434
One of the three engines installed in 1930 and the only survivor. A large... (more)
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Waddon Pumping Station
by Chris Allen
for square TQ3163
These were the last reciprocating steam engines in service for pumping drinking... (more)
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Allermoor Pumping Station - Stanmoor engine
by Chris Allen
for square ST3530
When I visited in the 1980s this preserved pumping station housed two off-site... (more)
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Papplewick Pumping Station - steam pumps
by Chris Allen
for square SK5852
These are two small steam pumping engines in the workshop building. The one on... (more)
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Stott Park Bobbin Mill - steam boiler feed pump
by Chris Allen
for square SD3788
This is on the modern vertical boiler that provides steam on steam days in place... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - visiting engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
A visitor had brought along this rotative steam pump and hooked it up to our... (more)
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Twyford Waterworks - steam banjo pump on display
by Chris Allen
for square SU4924
One of three small steam pumps displayed outside the diesel pump house. This one... (more)
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Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam engine, the 'steam man'
by Chris Allen
for square TL4659
A detailed view of one of the two Hathorn, Davey horizontal compound... (more)
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Cambridge Museum of Technology - steam engine
by Chris Allen
for square TL4659
One of the two Hathorn, Davey horizontal compound non-rotative... (more)
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Museum of Power - high pressure pump
by Chris Allen
for square TL8309
This outdoor exhibit consists of a single casing steam turbine on the left... (more)
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Wallasey Dock Impounding Station
by Chris Allen
for square SJ3289
This was the boiler house for the steam turbine powered impounding pumps. The... (more)
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Kew Bridge Steam Museum - starting the Bull engine
by Chris Allen
for square TQ1878
Clive Penfold is starting this 1857 built direct acting non-rotative pumping... (more)
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