1982

TQ3163 : Waddon Pumping Station

taken 42 years ago, near to Beddington, Sutton, England

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Waddon Pumping Station
Waddon Pumping Station
The boiler house with three Cornish boilers. The one furthest from the camera was still in use. You could have eaten your dinner off the floor. Not bad - especially when you consider that these were hand-fired with coal (nasty dirty black stuff).

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Category: Machinery
This photo is linked from: Galleries: · The Stationary Steam Engine Automatic Clusters: · Cornish Boilers [3] Title Clusters: · Waddon Pumping Station [5] ·
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TQ3163, 118 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 13 May, 1982   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 6 March, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 313 639 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:21.5667N 0:6.9003W
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