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A new breed of sailor for a new breed of boat: Skipper Jimmy Spithill pumping iron. (Jason Albert/Only A Game)
The Byrd Park Pump House, also called the New Pump-House, is a wonderfully executed late 19th-century example of the Gothic Revival style, applied to a municipal industrial building whose purpose was to house the Richmond city waterworks. The building, which served as the city’s waterworks from 1883 until 1924, is conveniently situated to draw water from the James River and Kanawha Canal as well as its own smaller canal. The facility pumped water uphill from the canals to the Byrd Park Reservoir, the city’s main water supply. Far from being entirely utilitarian, however, the pump house was also a popular gathering place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pump house is in a scenic location at the Three-Mile Locks of the canal system. The site inspired Colonel Wilfred Emory Cutshaw, Richmond’s City Engineer from 1874 until 1907, to design the building as a social venue as well as a waterworks. He included an open-air dance hall, or pavilion, on the second floor above the equipment room. The pump house had the reputation of being one of the only buildings in the country designed and used as both a public utilities building and a social hall.
The solid and impressive pump house is made of local granite. It has Gothic features such as pointed arches, lancet windows, and steep gables. The high level of craftsmanship and refinement of the design make the pump house a fine example of the Gothic Revival style and belie its primary purpose as a municipal water-pumping facility.
Wilfred Emory Cutshaw, who oversaw the building's design and construction, was a grand figure in the development of Richmond. During his 34-year tenure as City Engineer, Cutshaw's endeavors included roads, sidewalks, schools, armories, parks, markets, and the construction of Old City Hall, one of the city’s most magnificent buildings. He was an advocate for tree planting along streets, and oversaw the creation of a tree nursery at the Byrd Park Reservoir. In 1907, a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that "Cutshaw's greatest ambition was to turn every available foot of space into recreation resorts for the public." Cutshaw received some criticism for the cost that the pump house pavilion added to the city-funded project, but the pavilion would become wildly popular.
During the late 19th century, the pump house pavilion was a favorite destination for parties. Well-dressed Richmonders could board a flat-bottomed boat at Seventh Street and take a leisurely ride up the canal to the pump house and its festive ballroom overlooking the woods and water below. Sadly, the building closed in 1924, and had its machinery sold off for scrap metal before the outbreak of World War II. The city slated the pump house for demolition in the 1950s but sold it to First Presbyterian Church for one dollar instead. The city has regained ownership and is currently looking to rehabilitate the building for use as offices and a headquarters and interpretive center for the James River Park System.
Papplewick Pumping Station is Britain's finest Victorian Water Works and the only one in the Midlands to be preserved as a complete working water pumping station. Built between 1882 - 1884 by the famous firm of James Watt & Co. of Soho Works, Birmingham and London, to supplement the water supply for the growing city of Nottingham.
In the main building there are two massive beam pumping engines, which can be seen working under steam on set Steaming Days - www.papplewickpumpingstation.co.uk/
I loved this angle, the 4 pump handles from the back of the Green Goddess at the North East Land, Sea & Air museum in Washington, Tyne & Wear
another version of the petrol pumps image. Previously I spot coloured one pump and blurred the rest, this is just the pump tops spot coloured and the background blurred. Another option is to spot colour both pumps.
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Brixton street furniture is a track pump, now that Ive never seen before.
Hope someone snuck it onto the £11bn circus ticket.
"Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield
Former south Staffs Waterworks Pumping Station. Contains an 1873
Cornish beam steam pumping engine. This is preserved but quite what the future will bring is uncertain. Houses are being built all around."
In the semi-abandoned ghost town of Darwin, here is what is left of an old gas pump, right at an intersection. I am not sure that this was actually the original position, because there would be no physical space today to fill up your tank, but this piece is authentic.
Darwin, California
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