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Kelham Drive, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 1RA

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. It comprised two engine houses housing three rotary beam engines. This photo is of the cylinders and valve gear to the No. 2 engine. It was built by Hawthorns in 1858. These engines are now in the industrial museum at Wollaton Hall. I've been in there and seen them but they don't recreate the noise, the heat and the smell of steam, oil and brasso when the engines were fully working.

New housing on a previous industrial site.

Late 19th century terraced housing makes a real contrast to the style looking up the hill Image

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. The reservoir wasn't used for the storage of drinking water but I believe for cooling of the water heated to drive the four steam beam engines on the site. These beam engines are now in the industrial museum at Wollaton Hall. The building on the right is the Nos. 1 and 2 Engine House and the one of the left is No. 3 Engine House. My father, rowing the boat, was one of the superintendents at the works. The reservoir was occasionally drained and cleaned and I remember on one such occasion a revolver was discovered on the bottom. My mother would have taken the photo using my dad's camera and the child in the boat was me.

The new housing estate, referred to by Peveril Homes plc as "Burlington Place Sherwood" (a.k.a. Kelham Drive, NG5 1FJ) that has been built on the site of the old Sara Lee/Courtaulds textile-factory site. This photo was taken from the garden of the Tennyson Court maisonette block on the opposite side of Hucknall Rd (A611). The estate was completed in mid-late 2011.

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. My sister poses in the snow on the main drive. The building on the right is the Nos. 1 & 2 Engine House and the shorter building partially hidden by the bushes is the Nos. 1 & 2 Boiler House. The bushes also hide the coal storage area.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark which is described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35158.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall at the left hand side of the image

Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. The building centre was No. 3 Boiler House and to the right the taller No. 3 Engine House.

A view of the A611 (Hucknall Rd) as it descends to cross the junction with Haydn Rd, before ascending the other side of the valley towards the city centre. The factory on the right-hand side is currently occupied by "Rachel Ellen", a company manufacturing greetings cards. Immediately beyond it is a two storey office block that forms part of a local Severn Trent Water Authority depot. This depot occupies a large corner site at the Hucknall Rd/Haydn Rd junction. The Bagthorpe Water Works, reservoir and pumping station first developed this site in 1857.