IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bates Crescent, CROYDON, CR0 4ET
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Bates Crescent, CR0 4ET by members 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.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (54 Images Found)
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Waddon Pumping Station
The boiler house with three Cornish boilers. The one furthest from the camera was still in use. You could have eaten your dinner off the floor. Not bad - especially when you consider that these were hand-fired with coal (nasty dirty black stuff).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 13 May 1982
0.08 miles
7
Waddon Pumping Station
These were the last reciprocating steam waterworks pumps in the UK and were formally retired in 1983. The station contained a pair of horizontal cross compound engines with slide valve cylinders. The piston tail rods drove well pumps on one side (low pressure) and a double acting force pump on the other side (high pressure). One engine was 1910 by James Simpson & Co and the other 1920 by Worthington-Simpson Ltd. Both survive off site.
The building is seen here - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 13 May 1982
0.10 miles
8
Waddon Pumping Station
The UK's last reciprocating steam engine waterworks pumping station. Stopped regular service 1982 but officially closed down 1983. Two horizontal cross compound steam pumping engines with well and force pumps. One preserved at Kew Bridge Steam Museum and the other at Strumpshaw Hall. The site also had three Cornish boilers, a Green's economiser and steam engine and two steam winches. Magnificent! Sadly missed.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 7 Jun 1980
0.10 miles
9
MSL Factory, South Croydon
Large Sixties styled factory on the junction of Purley Way (on the left) and Queensway (on the right).
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 30 Oct 2011
0.11 miles
10
Waddon Pumping Station - economiser
This is the top of the Green's economiser with the scraper drive mechanism. The small steam engine driving it is at the far end and the belt comes towards the photographer to drive the scrapers via the self reversing mechanism on the right. Examples of this may be seen at the British Engineerium, Hove, Mill Meece Pumping Station, near Eccleshall and Claymills Victorian Pumping Station, Burton-on-Trent. See - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 13 May 1982
0.11 miles