A short and sweet one this, but I really liked it. Spotted it on old online maps a while back And then looking at it on Google maps it looked like it still remains. So I took the drive out to have a look. It was a little bit of a walk to it but nothing too bad. I was a bit disappointed when I got to it and see the main wall was graffitied up. I mean who walks all that way in the middle of nowhere to spray a wall. Anyway it’s just basically a small pump house with a chimney behind and I was really happy as I looked around the back off the wall to see the scoop wheel still in situ. The engine house sadly is just a collapsed shell. I was struggling to find anything on it. Then come across a small piece on it from Norfolk heritage.
it was originally the site of a wing pump and was replaced in 1877 to lift warter into the Middleton stop drain. Built by Sir Lewis Whincop Jarvis, the building was built of English light red bond. The steam engine used to power it was a 10hp non condensing vertical with reduction geared scoopwheel. The feed water pump was driven by the engine too, but was later replaced with an injector. The pump house closed in 1934 but machinery was not dismantled till 1975. It’s the only upstanding example in the Norfolk fens.
When there I wondered how the scoop was powered. My first though was a steam engine, maybe replaced by a turbine of sorts.
The scoop wheel is made of iron and wood paddles, it measures at a diameter of three metres.
At the far end is an open drop. This is brick lined with a chamber with a curved arch we’re the water would be pushed along.
The iron cap.
it was originally the site of a wing pump and was replaced in 1877 to lift warter into the Middleton stop drain. Built by Sir Lewis Whincop Jarvis, the building was built of English light red bond. The steam engine used to power it was a 10hp non condensing vertical with reduction geared scoopwheel. The feed water pump was driven by the engine too, but was later replaced with an injector. The pump house closed in 1934 but machinery was not dismantled till 1975. It’s the only upstanding example in the Norfolk fens.
When there I wondered how the scoop was powered. My first though was a steam engine, maybe replaced by a turbine of sorts.
The scoop wheel is made of iron and wood paddles, it measures at a diameter of three metres.
At the far end is an open drop. This is brick lined with a chamber with a curved arch we’re the water would be pushed along.
The iron cap.
