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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - test run
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Despite a lot of work on piston and valves, this Buxton and Thornley portable... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - B engine camshaft
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Underneath the restored B engine with the valve drive camshaft drawing the eye.... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - running in!
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The 1889 Buxton and Thornley dynamo engine has just had a rebore; new piston... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - displacement lubricator
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This had only just been fitted to the Hall feed pump and was found to work... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - running in!
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The 1889 Buxton and Thornley dynamo engine has just had a rebore; new piston... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - Igor it lives
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The glowing bulbs confirm that the 1889 Buxton & Thornley engine and... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - A and B engines
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
These are two of the four Gimson built Woolf compound rotative beam pumping... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - marquee erection
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Several volunteers were about to hoist up the roof and attach the legs before... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - a steamy conflab
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Two volunteers talking in the yard with backlit background steam from the small... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - steam hammer in use
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Doing some real blacksmith work during a steaming weekend. A Massey 5 cwt hammer... (more)
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Breakdown truck at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Arriving for a two day in steam event at the pumping station.
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - stoker drive engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
A Bennis 'Westminster' engine that drives the mechanical stokers on... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - compressor engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This is a horizontal single cylinder steam driven air compressor by J & J... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - compressor engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This is by an unknown maker at an unknown date and is the air vessel charging... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - boiler feed pump
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
A J P Hall of Peterborough inverted vertical single cylinder, non-rotative pump.... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - A/B barring engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This was in a temporary location after it had been returned from the Skopos... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - boiler house
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This shows three of the five Lancashire boilers and associated steam main. The... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - restoration of the north economiser
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
When the pumping station closed the scraper gear and economiser engines had been... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - workshop
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This Vernon and Guest of Smethwick inverted vertical single cylinder engine... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - workshop
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This workshop was built in 1900 as the Corporation's central workshop. It... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - 'portable' engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This was originally a portable on wheels and was used at the sewage form but... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - Ruston boiler 2006
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This is the portable engine that had been returned to site. It had latterly been... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - winch
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This is the Waddington portable winch that was used for cleaning the main sewage... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - auxiliary feed pump
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
This little Buxton & Thornley horizontal single cylinder rotative pump can... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - C engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
One of the four Woolf compound rotative beam engines built in 1885 by Gimson of... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - D engine
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
One of the four Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines built in 1885 by... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - freshly painted
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Severn Trent, the site's owners, employed contractors to restore the fabric... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - freshly painted
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The site's owners, Severn Trent, have paid for exterior decoration of AB... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - A and B engines
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
These are the crank end sewage pumps on A (left) and B engines. Although they... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - the yard
by Chris Allen
geograph for square SK2625
The pumping station with its chimney is to the left while the brick-built range... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - C and D engines
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The beam floor with C on the right and D on the left. Both engines are in the... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - maintenance
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The 1889 Buxton & Thornley horizontal single cylinder engine has just had... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - dynamo engine maintenance work
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The 1889 Buxton & Thornley horizontal single cylinder dynamo engine is... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - maintenance
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The volunteer on the left is cutting a gasket to size for the valve chest cover... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - volunteers at work
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Jacob, closest to the camera, is cleaning up the front cylinder cover of the... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - new piston rings
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
These are for the Buxton & Thornley large dynamo engine. This has been... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - biomass adjustment
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
The site has obtained some blocks of biomass made from compressed rape seed... (more)
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Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - heavy maintenance
by Chris Allen
for square SK2625
Jacob (left) and Jason are reinstalling the cylinder on the Buxton &... (more)
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Crossness Pumping Station - sewage pump
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
A motor driven three throw sewage pump by Whitehead and Pool c1950. It was used... (more)
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Crossness Pumping Station - progressive cavity pump
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
A positive displacement pump developed in the 1920s by R Moineau in France. It... (more)
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Crossness Pumping Station - steam turbine
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
Displayed in the former valve house. This is a Greenwood & Batley single... (more)
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Crossness Pumping Station - steam pumps
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
A group of three horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pumps displayed in the... (more)
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Crossness Pumping Station - steam fire pump
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
This is not in the location I saw it in during 2023 and I think this was in the... (more)
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Crossness Pumping station - steam pump in the valve house
by Chris Allen
for square TQ4881
This building houses several off-site engines that can be run on compressed air.... (more)
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Free again – 2
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SK2625
'A-B' engine house has reappeared from its scaffolding... (more)
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Free again – 1
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SK2625
'A-B' engine house has reappeared from its scaffolding... (more)
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Ventilator and windvane at Claymills
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SK2625
Looking pristine following the refurbishment of 'A-B' engine house.... (more)
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Man and nature at Claymills
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SK2625
Wild grasses and reedmace frame the pumping station across a frozen gravel pit.
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New Year at Claymills, 14 years on
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SK2625
A cold snap again resulted in the freezing over of the adjacent former gravel... (more)
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Claymills Pumping Station, the engine houses
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SK2625
Taken shortly after the removal of scaffolding on completion of remedial work on... (more)
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