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One of the few remaining water pumps that were dotted around London in the 19th Century.
Seen whilst in a rush to get somewhere else, I took a short-cut and there it was!
The pumping station Lely is an electrically driven pumping station in 1930 and is still used to keep the Wieringermeer dry. The building was designed by Dirk Roosenburg.
The Leawood Pump House was built near Cromford, Derbyshire, England in 1849 to supply water to the Cromford Canal, built some 50 years previously. It is a Grade II* listed building
Though these gas pumps are no longer in use, they provide a great glimpse back into a time many of us remember, when things seemed a lot simpler.
I can still recall the first time I saw a pump your own gas station in Michigan! They had yet to hit Florida, and I was amazed that people were allowed to fill their own tanks! Now it's hard to find a station where you DON'T.
Our local mountains had their first snowfall of the season. I managed to escape work for the afternoon and visited Seymour.
The ski runs only have a foot of snow. Above them, I followed the regular trail until Pump Peak. Here I wandered around in the fresh stuff. No snowshoes, but only sinking up to my knees in the deeper spots.
During the winter these trees are thick with snow and ice. It was a nice variation to have them only mostly covered. A happy hour was spent making the only footsteps and trying out different compositions. The sweet late-afternoon light was a pleasant bonus! I can relate to children who enjoy playing in the same school playground day after day. Roaming Seymour in the winter never gets boring for me. It's my outdoor amusement park.
Along Nancy Rhodes Creek, which flows into the Eno River, this abandoned station, built in 1887, supplied water to Durham, NC. Information about its history can be found at www.opendurham.org/buildings/durham-water-company-eno-riv....
I found this building whilst scrabbling around in Crowgutter Woods. Not sure it's even a pump house! It contains some pipes and valves. That's the best way to describe it really!
IC 3115 and GTW 6224 lead L521 past the EJ&E era water tower pumphouse which still stands in Frankfort, IL on the CN Matteson Sub. February 2026
I took this photo last January, but always hoped for a better shot, with better light. Sadly, this is a shot that can no longer be taken due to the horrible wire fence in front of it.
To understand the importance of the pump house see Iain Robinson's blog post: robinsonmaps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/i-was-little-hesitant...
Flickr Friday theme: Iron. There were tons of shots of rusted metal and actual “irons" used to remove wrinkles from clothing, so I decided to try something different, and substituted a turn of phrase for the actual element. This was photographed using a single off camera flash, firing through a 28" octabox. The light was positioned slightly in front and above the subject (me). It would have been nice to have some fill, but considering I was the model and the photographer and was working in my garage in 95F heat, there were limits... This shot was conceived to be moody and was always to be bw, and the emphasis was on the dumbbell for the theme after all.