Dock Road Sewage Pumping Station
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jan 1992
Now open regularly as a visitor attraction and home to a pair of horizontal single cylinder gas engines driving reciprocating pumps. I think they were originally hot-tube but later converted to spark ignition. It was a bitterly cold morning and the engine that was runnable resisted vigorous attempts to coax it into life.