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Waterworks Road, WORCESTER, WR1 3EZ

There a sign on the side of the building suggesting in 2025 this former Barbourne pumping station will be repurposed and have a new life.

This horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump by Tangye of Birmingham was spotted on a patio area in front of the former waterworks. Alongside is a manual winch of the type often found on the beam floor of beam engine houses. The provenance of these two is not known. The pump was of a type often found for boiler feed purposes or for handling various other fluids in relatively small quantities.

This building was the subject of the first picture uploaded in this grid square in September 2005 Image Not much appears to have changed here in the past twenty years.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings undoubtedly once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. A visit when open is a priority for the next few weeks. The grounds contain a small horizntal duplex non-rotative steam pump.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.

The former waterworks building now an environment centre. The architecture is fine and these buildings undoubtedly once held steam pumps although the chimney is long gone. The grounds contain a small horizontal duplex non-rotative steam pump. The waterworks was a Thomas Hawksley design and was built in at least two phases in 1857 and 1868. Apparently the engines were removed in 1895 and electric pumps installed. That was a very early installation and steam pumps were to be installed in UK waterworks until the 1930s. The site closed in 1995 and the Environment Centre was opened in 2004.

Built from the outside in. The earliest section is that on the right, built in 1857-58 by the water engineer Thomas Hawksley in an "odd chunky Franco-Jacobethan style". A similar range was built on the left in 1868, but not until 1901-02 did the present middle section materialise, courtesy of Thomas Caink. Now the Pump House Environment Centre. See also Image