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We took the train into London from Windsor to Paddington and walked the short distance to the Marlborough Gate of Kensington Gardens. There we found the Italian Pump Room Gardens, where the yellow water irises were at their peak, and headed southwest past the Peter Pan Statue, Henry Moore's "The Arch" sculpture, Simon Gudgeon's elegant bronze "Isis" and the Lady Diana Fountain. We stopped at the recently re-gilded Albert Memorial, then followed the Flower Walk out of the park and down Kensington High Street to Holland Park, where we discovered the Dutch Garden with its yellow tulips, blue and yellow irises, and the colorful 1995 mural by Mao Wen Biao, which recreates the Holland House garden parties of the 1870's.
After resting in the park's tranquil Kyoto Japanese Garden, we had a light lunch in the excellent Parabola Restaurant inside the new Design Museum. We then immersed ourselves for a couple of hours in the museum's permanent collection - "Designer, Maker, User". After scones and tea at Caffe Concerto Kensington, we took the Underground to St. James Park with its beautiful late afternoon light, went around the lake, over the Blue Bridge, through Westminster, and along the Thames to the Tate Britain where we had reserved evening tickets for the amazing retrospective of David Hockney's 60 year career (no photographs were allowed inside the special exhibition.)
As Samuel Johnson famously said, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
This is the old pump house on our floodplain. This was taken around 5pm yesterday. By last night the water was only a foot below the door.
This pump evidently sustained collateral damage after a driver/thief drove off with the nozzle from another pump still in his car, causing an explosion.
The drain pump in my Electrolux washer is failing. I placed an order at nettoparts.co.uk and got it today.
I will have to use tomorrow to replace it and hopefully I will be washing again.
According to my caliper it fits into a 57mm hole somewhere... :P
Practice session at the Brampton Court House parking lot. Pumper 206. Brampton Fire Department. Brampton Ontario Canada.
Nenthead, Cumbria.
Memorial Pump, dated 1877. Cast Iron.
Under an ornamental canopy.
Made by George Smith, Sun Foundry, Glasgow.
Grade ll listed.
Detail.
Inscribed: ERECTED BY RW BAINBRIDGE ESQ OF MIDDLETON HOUSE.
The oval plaque above each arch is inscribed: IN COMMEMORATION OF A TESTIMONIAL PRESENTED TO HIM & MRS BAINBRIDGE BY THE EMPLOYEES OF THE LONDON LEAD CO AND OTHER FRIENDS SEPT 28TH 1877.
The small village of Nenthead in the North Pennines is England’s highest village at 1500 feet. Nenthead was a major centre for lead and silver mining, and in its time had the most productive lead mine in the country.
The London Lead Company was formed by Quakers in 1704, and the directors, in common with other Quaker industrialists, recognised a moral responsibility to their workforce. They built the first purpose-built industrial village in England and laid the foundations for today’s social welfare system. Complete with free lending library and compulsory schooling for all children, the village of Nenthead was born.
The benevolent Quakers built, amongst other things, housing, a school, a reading room, public baths and a wash-house for the miners and their families. Nenthead was the first village in the UK to have electric street lighting from excess power generated by the mines. The foresight of the Company, and its caring attitude towards its employees, brought immense prosperity to one of the most remote and inhospitable regions in the country.
To get lake water up to our house for watering plants, I cobbled together this portable pump station. Wheel it to the water's edge, drop the bucket down into the lake and voila.
Product Description:
The pump is one of perfect series products of vertical pumps developed based on assimilating advanced technology of vertical precipitation pump and scale pump from abroad.
Widely used in metallurgy, mine, chemical industry, power station, municipal water supply and drain, waste water treatment, etc.
Capacity: 25 ~ 5000 m3/h; Head: 13 ~ 120 m; Depth below the wellhead: 2 ~ 50 m; Bore: 80 ~ 700 mm
JB/T443-1992 and Hydraulic Institute A101-00
Fluids: clean water, sewage and other fluids containing up to 15% wt solids of grain size less than 1.5 mm
Stainless driving shaft available.
Protective tube separates the shaft and guide bearing from the pumped medium completely, prolonging the lifetime of guide bearing, shaft and shaft sleeve.
Guide bearing made of combination of new oil-resistant and wear-resistant high polymer material with abrasion resistant rubber, able to stand wear and tear.
Impeller and wetted parts of stainless steel after special surface treatment are more resistant to wear and tear, especially suitable for steelworks to deliver circulating turbid water and for waterworks to pump muddy water from rivers and so on.