Sandfields Pumping Station - circulating pump
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Sandfields Pumping Station - circulating pump
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Feb 2020
Sandfields is home to a Cornish beam pumping engine built in 1873 and preserved since about 1924. It is currently being restored by Lichfield Waterworks Trust and can be visited on Friday mornings. This is the lowest level of the engine house and just on the cylinder side of the beam centre. This is the circulating pump. This is a bucket pump worked from the beam and returning water from the condenser tank to the canal from whence it had come. The returning water is warmer as it has cooled the surface condenser and recovered the latent heat from the steam being condensed. The volunteers are currently trying to free up the pump bucket - no easy task after sitting in water for 96 years or so.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.673461
Longitude
-1.834911