2008

TM4697 : Herringfleet wind pump

taken 18 years ago, near to Herringfleet, Suffolk, England

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Herringfleet wind pump
Herringfleet wind pump
The shed, now empty, presumably used to house an internal combustion engine driving that pump visible in the foreground, for use on windless days. On windy days the sails drove a large waterwheel in the housing visible in front of the tower. The construction uses a rather odd collection of poles to provide the drive to rotate the sails into wind. This seems to have been a manual operation instead of the usual automatic fantail drive.

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Category: Windpump
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Windless Days [5] Title Clusters: · Herringfleet wind pump [3] ·
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TM4697, 81 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
John Goldsmith   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 21 October, 2008   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 4 November, 2008
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 465 976 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:31.2598N 1:37.9595E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 465 976
View Direction
North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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