Alarms on the wall
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Alarms on the wall
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 12 Aug 2014
Some alarm equipment on the wall of Cavendish House, possibly still capable of ringing. Kindly, John Webb has some illuminating details about them: These are sprinkler alarm gongs. If the sprinkler systems are active, then these will ring. They are powered by small water wheels turned by a small flow of water diverted from the operating system. The systems almost certainly are monitored by more modern communication methods to raise an off-site warning of operation or faults.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.89958
Longitude
-2.075528