Prince's Drive Pumping station - interior of beam engine house
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Prince's Drive Pumping station - interior of beam engine house by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Prince's Drive Pumping station - interior of beam engine house
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 16 Apr 1982
The pumping station originally had a pair of beam engines and these columns and entablature were the mortal remains by 1982. The beam engine house then contained electric pumps and a Belliss and Morcom steam engine that had driven an alternator. The Belliss is now at Snibston in Leicestershire, the columns seen here are at Blists Hill near Ironbridge and the supported entablature is at the Museum of iron in Coalbrookdale. The engine house was demolished long ago.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
52.285964
Longitude
-1.547996