Goldstone Pumping Station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Goldstone Pumping Station by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Goldstone Pumping Station
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 26 Aug 1981
Home to a pair of Woolf compound beam pumping engines and also the British Engineerium. The whole collection was up for auction in 2006 but a local benefactor stepped in at the 11th hour (and 59th minute) and saved the lot. It has not yet re-opened as renovations and improvements are in progress.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.844296
Longitude
-0.175758