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The Pumping Station at the summit of the Kennet & Avon Canal has two beam engines. One by Boulton & Watt from 1812 is the oldest insitu working steam engine. When the canal closed, the pumping station was operated by the Great Western Railway to supply water to steam engines on the adjacent railway. Near Marlborough, UK.
"This building was originally the water pump house for the Kelly estate. After the recent conversion from a guest cottage, the ice cream parlor is a welcome addition for Heidel House Resort." (Source: Sign)
Ein Blick aus dem Hotelfenster in der Rue Pierre Chausson, ein Stillleben das nach einem Foto gerufen hat
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Bedford Park, Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
The High Pumping Station in the northwest section of The Bronx was built in the years 1901-06 by George W. Birdsall of The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. Constructed as part of the Jerome Reservoir complex, an adjunct to the Croton Aqueduct system, the station was built to pump water from the reservoir located to its west to consumers throughout the borough.
The area that gave rise to this reservoir gained its name from the Jerome Park Racetrack (named for one of its founders, Leonard W. Jerome, Winston Churchill's grandfather) which occupied the site between 1876 and 1890.
Dating back to the time of the American Revolution this land was the property of Colonel Frederick Philipse, a Tory whose estate was later confiscated by the Continental Congress.
The decision to build a new receiving reservoir at Jerome Park was reached by the Aqueduct Commissioners as early as 1884, however the plans for the new reservoir were not ready until 1894 with the contract for construction being signed only in August 1895.
At the turn of the century the demand for clean water by a growing urban population was supplemented by the need to have necessary pressure in order that the water be able to reach the upper floors of multi-storied structures. It is precisely this service performed by the High Pumping Station that made it such an important utility for The Bronx.
This is clearly recognized by the author of the Annual Report of The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 1903 who characterizes the High Pumping Station as being a valuable tool from which "...a much needed supply can be delivered to a territory where the pressure is at present totally Insufficient."
Contracts for the foundations, engines, boilers, tank, standpipe, and coal house for the station were given out in the summer and fall of 1901. Work was delayed, however, because a sewer needed to drain the site of the reservoir had not yet been completed by the Aqueduct Commission; only the laying of the
The pumping station is built in the Romanesque Revival idiom, a style that was widely used at the turn of the century for all different types of buildings.
The fact that it is employed here for strictly a utilitarian purpose reflects the adaptability of the style as well as the importance attached to this utilitarian building.
Situated along the west side of Jerome Avenue just south of Mosholu Parkway, the High Pumping Station is a long and narrow red brick building topped by a steeply pitched roof.
The facade is divided into a series of bays, each consisting of two arched windows (or doorway, if an entrance) flanked by shallow brick buttresses. This arrangement of the facade relieves, in part, the dominant horizontality of the station's layout and provides the facade with a sense of rhythm.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
This is the steam engine which drove the largest Cornish pump in the world. Now it is in the Iron Mining Museum at Iron Mountain, MI. This pump was used to dewater the Chapin Mine. I was after the spiral stairways in this photo.
Photographed on Kodak Portra 800 using a Nikon F100 and the 18mm f/4 lens.
On this and several other important links in the region's storm managment system, walls and roofs are being reinforced to withstand category 3 hurricane winds for up to 3 seconds. Cost overruns have led to delays, and what ultimately ends up getting done in many places, including here, will fail to meet these standards. Officially, this is due to unexpected complications from working on historic buildings--and nothing to do with the fact that the head contractor used $600,000 of his budget to finance a movie in which his wife was starring.
www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/10/corps_stormpro...
Regular gas sold for 74 cent the last time this pump worked. The approval sticker on the pump was dated 1974.
The 'old wing' was one of the pumping stations for Manchester's high pressure water network, of which there is more information about this at MOSI in Manchester. This used to be the main part of the museum prior to its redevelopment in 2007, and now houses a temporary exhibition of photographs of the Oldham Road area, in the 1980s and more recently.
I saw this in a charity shop and had to have it. It sort-of ties in with the home-made vacuum pumps that were on Instructables and Make recently.