IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Sheepy Road, ATHERSTONE, CV9 3AH
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Image Listing (13 Images Found)
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Old pumps at Alder Mill
Preserved on little brick plinths outside this former water mill are two little pumps that apparently came from a sugar works. On the left is a water pump by Legrand, Sutcliff & Gell Ltd of London. The device on the right looks a lot like a steam engine but it lacks a governor and as it is by F W Brackett of Colchester and came from a sugar works, it is a good bet that it is a vacuum pump. Sugar works used multiple effect evaporators working under a partial vacuum to concentrate the syrup prior to crystallisation. This is a relatively small unit.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2018
0.08 miles
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Alder Mill across the mill pond.
Located on the left bank of the River Anker on the outskirts of Atherstone, this restored mill is a now a private residence.
Image: © ROWLAND TURNER
Taken: 25 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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Alder Mill
The mill is now converted to a dwelling. Of particular interest to me are the two pumps on the lawn by the flagpole. The one on the right has been mistaken for a steam engine but I am confident this is a vacuum pump as it came from a sugar works. Sugar is produced by multiple effect evaporation under vacuum and all sugar works need vacuum pumps. This one is by F W Brackett of Colchester - noted for air compressors and vacuum pumps, some steam driven. It has taken me 20 or more years to get round to this - if it had been a steam engine I would have been there within a week or two of hearing about it!
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2018
0.08 miles
4
Alder Mill, Pinwall, Atherstone
The water mill to the left is now converted to a dwelling. On the right are two pumps that apparently came from a sugar mill. I had known about these for years but hadn't rushed out to see them as they are not steam (although the horizontal one on the right is very similar to a steam engine and could easily be converted to run on steam).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2018
0.09 miles
5
Alders Mill
Located on the River Anker near Pinwall.
Image: © Andy and Hilary
Taken: 7 May 2005
0.09 miles
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Alders Mill 1950s
In a run down state in the early 1950s.
Image: © Andy and Hilary
Taken: Unknown
0.09 miles
7
The former Alder Mill
A water mill on the River Anker that has been turned into a house. There is some preserved machinery by the road side that came from a sugar mill and had nothing to do with the water mill, which was a grain mill. I could see no evidence of a water wheel without trespassing.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2018
0.09 miles
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The former Alder Mill near Atherstone
A water mill now turned into a dwelling. On the grass in front are two pumps from a sugar works. The autumnal lighting was fantastic.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Nov 2018
0.09 miles
10
River Anker - view upstream
From Fieldon Bridge at Alder Mill.
Image: © Jonathan Billinger
Taken: 13 Jun 2008
0.10 miles