TL7349 : "Titt" Wind Engine at Hundon
near to Babel Green, Suffolk, Great Britain

"Titt" Wind Engine at Hundon
The "Titt" Wind Pump on North Street on the way to Hundon Hall. Historically this engine type is an important and rare example of a transitional design in wind engine technology between the earlier annular sailed windmills of which no example survives and the 20th Century fixed blade galvanised wind engines the "prairie type" wind pumps.
The pump was named after its designer John Wallis Titt 1841-1910. There is still a thriving agricultural engineering company in Frome Somerset bearing his name (information courtesy of Link
The Wind Engine which was tended by William George Pryke and we assume he is shown in the picture with his brother Sam. Photograph date is not known.
The pump was named after its designer John Wallis Titt 1841-1910. There is still a thriving agricultural engineering company in Frome Somerset bearing his name (information courtesy of Link
The Wind Engine which was tended by William George Pryke and we assume he is shown in the picture with his brother Sam. Photograph date is not known.
- Grid Square
- TL7349, 2 images (find more images nearby)
- Photographer
- Edna Rowlinson
- Contributed by
- Peter Rowlinson (find more nearby)
- Image classification
- Supplemental image
- Date Taken
- 1940
- Submitted
- Thursday, 24 April, 2008
- Category
- Windpump (find more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TL 739 494 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:6.9497N 0:32.3386E - Photographer Location
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OSGB36:
TL 739 494 - View Direction
- Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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