IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Smith Grove, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0JU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Smith Grove, SR2 0JU by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (28 Images Found)
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Beam pumping engines, Ryhope
Two Woolf compound rotative pumping engines. Relatively plain but large and stately. Preserved since the late 1960s and regularly demonstrated in steam.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Jul 1981
0.17 miles
4
Ryhope Pumping Station - steam test engine
On display in the boiler house in 1989 was this inverted vertical compound test engine built by W Sisson of Gloucester in 1952 as No. E5383. It was supplied to Gateshead technical college and the cylinders are 4.5" & 9" x 9".
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles
5
Ryhope Pumping Station - steam winch
This is an off-site horizontal duplex steam winch and sheerlegs assembly that came from Sunderland and District General Hospital where it serviced a well. The winch was made by R J Smith of Sunderland and I can't recall seeing another by that maker.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles
6
Ryhope Pumping Station
The two boilers by W & J Galloway of Manchester and built in 1908. The closest is in steam but the further one was clearly empty.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles
7
Stoking the boiler at Ryhope Pumping Station
Firing the in steam Galloway boiler at this preserved Victorian water pumping station. The stoker is slightly blurred as this is a time exposure using available light.
Fujifilm 100ASA slide film and scanned on a CanoScan FS4000US scanner.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles
8
Ryhope Engine Museum
The former Ryhope pumping station, opened 1868 by the Sunderland & South Shields Water Company.
Image: © David Robinson
Taken: 26 Aug 2018
0.18 miles
9
Ryhope Pumping Station
What can one say! This has been described as "The finest industrial monument in the north-east". Victorian waterworks with preserved and workable beam engines and Lancashire boilers.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles
10
Ryhope Pumping Station - steam pumping engine
This shows part of one of the two Woolf compound beam engines built in 1868 by R & W Hawthorn and in use until 1967. The cylinders are 27.5" x 5'4" and 45" x 8'. The beams are 33' between end centres and weigh 22 tons. The flywheels are 24' diameter and weigh 18 tons. The engines used steam at 35 psi, ran at 10 rpm and delivered 40,000 gallons per hour against a 243' head.
This is a view down the main well with the 4' throw crank in the foreground. Beyond is the drive to the main well pump with its 10' 8" stroke. This pump lifted the water from about 250' below the engine house floor to 130' below the floor from where it flowed to the staple well at the opposite end of the engine. A pump at the other end of the engine then lifted it to the reservoir at ground level. Having pumps at each end balanced the loading across the engine's centre.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.18 miles