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Herringfleet Windpump (Walker's Mill)
Location
Grid reference: TM 465 977
OS sheet: 134
About 5 miles north west of Lowestoft. Access by footpath only from B1074 between St Olaves and Somerleyton (about half mile). Small car park beside B1074.
A smock drainage mill, built in the 1820s and worked by marshmen until the 1950s. The last pumping mill of its type, with cloth-spread sails and a cap turned by tailpole and winch. Water is lifted from the dyke by the external scoopwheel. The mill pumps on open days. Unspoilt marshland setting. 1950s diesel pump adjacent.
Owner: Jake Lindamood, Lindamood Demolition
Model: 2007 Pete 379
Wheelbase: 250 in.
Engine: 565-hp Cummins
Transmission: 18-speed Eaton Fuller
Exterior Mods: 12-gauge flat window visor; stainless steel step boxes; chrome or steel-braided piping & hoses; air bags to raise/lower front end; chrome brake covers; chrome wheels; air cleaners cut 6 in. with custom lights; 8-in. diameter exhaust stacks with mitre cut extended to 12.5 ft.
Interior Mods: Wood flooring from house for cab floor; billet aluminum steering wheel & gearshift; LED lighting on gearshift and PTO controls; leather headliner, low-base seats, door panels
Friendship, NY
This building was built specifically to house a new Steam Pumper for the town's Fire Dept. during the oil boom days.
The building has been modified to accommodate an ambulance, so the original arched door that matched the windows was replaced with this nasty modern square thing. The building is still wonderful though.
The town stills owns the original pumper, which still works and is hauled out once a year to spray water into the air. The pumper is also still registered as operational fire fighting apparatus.
P.S. In Charleston, there are still many pumper stalls, complete with grooved thresholds to give the horses traction as they hurried out of the building with such a load. Several of these buildings are haunted. It's true, though I'm not sure if by horses or people. This is a growing problem, as the U.S. population migrates southward, so do the ghosts from the upper mid-west and the northeast. Charleston is experiencing a mixture of nocturnal paranormal accents as yankee poltergeists mingle with their southern counterparts.
It is said that the ghost that once haunted this Friendship, NY building is now wreaking havoc with weary firemen in Charleston, but that has not been confirmed.
Taken while on a walk around Siuthwold harbour in Suffolk. If you walk away from the coast following the river Blyth you eventually come to a walkway bridge and just a bit further on is this structure. Don't really know its history but it appears to be an old drainage pump. Not the prettiest focal point for a comp but I think it works overall.
The swell, tide and sunrise all lined up perfectly to allow me to get this shot. It is a location that has been covered plenty of times but I was keen to add one of my own to the collection. An icon of Newcastle.
NK59 EXN & NK62 EGJ outside Alnwick Fire station, where they are based!
This is a 2 Pump Retained Station, Northumberland Fire & Rescue Service
The lubrication pump of an old steam locomotive.
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22.7.2022.
View from the main entrance of the Pumping Station showing the flywheels and connecting rods of the two James Watt Beam Engines that were installed in 1884.
The highly decorative ironwork can be seen on the columns.
A five shot image, stitched in Lightroom.
Snappers Camera Group visit.
As seen at Wirral Transport Museum. This immediately took me back to my Rochdale childhood on the mid 1960's because I recall petrol pumps like this where my old Dad always bought his petrol for our Morris Traveller. I think the garage was in Water Street but I could be wrong. He worked just around the corner from there in Drake Street managing the Town's Thomas Cook travel agency. I used to love watching the dials go around on the old pumps.
Windmill Water Pump on display at Elmer's Hideout in Taylor Township in Black River Matheson in Northeastern Ontario Canada
Well not quite... Under the pier that supports the pipes (top right) carrying sand and seawater that is pumped from the south side of the Tweed River (here) up to the north or Gold Coast side. The purpose is to replenish the northern drift of sand impeded by the rock walls (groynes) which keep the Tweed River mouth navigable. The supply of sand is vital to the maintenance of the Gold Coast surf beaches.
The pipe on the left is disused. But what a superb afternoon it was!
Old gas pumps in Kreuzberg
Zapfsäulen in Kreuzberg
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Interior view of the vast complex of the F.E. Myers Pump Company in Ashland, Ohio. At one time it was the largest manufacturer of pumps and hay making tools in the United States. This is the last photo in a series on the Myers Pump Company.
4th May 2015 - Some of the architecture in Liverpool is stunning and i've always had a strong fascination about this building.
Whilst everything around has been demolished for redevelopment, this tall brick building cannot be demolished because it houses the pumps that keep the rail tunnel dry.
There is a drainage tunnel or heading right across the Mersey, that at it’s extremities also becomes a ventilation tunnel. The original trains were pulled by steam locomotives, and the smoke and steam was removed by huge fans in a building adjoining this site. Archaeologists have recorded what was found beneath the modern building that was demolished in 2007. The smoke headings that lead into the fan rooms were cut through by the Mersey Estuary tunnel that runs beneath the dock road.
The ventilation heading and cross river drainage tunnel was used as a pilot tunnel for the main construction and to provide advanced drainage of the water bearing strata through which the main tunnel was to be driven. This tunnel was driven by Beaumont and English using the same machine that they had developed for the first channel tunnel (which was abandoned after going only two miles for political reasons). The ventilation tunnel can still be accessed from a hidden rock-cut staircase behind the panelled facades inside James Street Station. A section was lined and strengthened to allow the Mersey Estuary tunnel to pass very close to it. It is also worth mentioning at this point that the lifts at James Street were originally hydraulic powered and designed to bring up passengers very quickly in very large numbers (James Street being the original business district station with a need to bring passengers up from a great depth at the same rate that they were disembarking from the trains.) A failure of one of these lifts caused a great loss of life and lead to the introduction of safety valves to prevent a sudden and complete loss of hydraulic pressure.
One sees many of these wind pumps in the Overberg region, between Robertson and Stanford, in the Western Cape. Finding three of them together was a bonus…
Have a great weekend, everyone. 😊
HFF!
The fire pump at the historic fire station, part of the Księży Młyn, industrial and residential complex in Łódź.
Księży Młyn is a factory estate built in the 19th century on the initiative of Karol Scheibler, one of Łódź's wealthiest industrialists. Łódź, Poland.
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Yet another version of this old service station whose pumps are gone. If you think you recognize it, it's because you have seen a different shot of it awhile back.
My goal with this series is to explore every day scenes under the cover of darkness. A street corner, a lamp post, a doorway. Big city, small town, urban, rural. Man-made light versus nature’s darkness–––light and shadow interpreting minimalist settings in black and white. To see more in this series, check out Cover Of Darkness.
Early on in the COVER OF NIGHT series, I shot a couple gas stations. They were not initially the type scene I was looking to capture, but when I came across one late at night, bright and isolated in the darkness, it was impossible for me to resist, so I continue to shoot them. I have now shot enough that they have become a series-within-the-series. For a look at them as a collection, check out, Gas Stations
Getting it to where it needs to be.
It takes some serious pumping power to get the concrete to the second floor and beyond.
… Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage. Heritage Museum showing how steam pumps were used to pump water from the Somerset Levels to help prevent flooding.
This storm was our first encounter with the storm chasing vacationers. Was an interesting day in the Oklahoma Panhandle without significant damage.
Beaver County Oklahoma
I drove by this place for many years. It's out in the country not near any town. It has not been inhabited for a long time. I posted this on Facebook and learned that it was once an old schoolhouse. Really neat place.
Old pump labelled Red Jacket from Davenport, Iowa.
October 12, 2017
North Central Missouri
Highway 5 north of Glascow
I have no idea what this little shed was originally for, but it's been steadily deteriorating next to a busy highway for a number of years. There are no other buildings nearby.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #1, weathered.
Edit: see below for the old water pump that's inside!
Now this is in Explore; #107, 9/20/'14.(#17 @ 3:35pm)