Henwood Pumping Station, beam engine
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Henwood Pumping Station, beam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 24 Aug 1981
This is one of the two Thomas Horn single column Woolf compound beam engines that drove reduction geared pumps at this waterworks. One was early 1870s and the other 1881. This engine is now displayed at Preston Court Farm Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.148839
Longitude
0.885354