Dudlow Lane Pumping Station, Liverpool
From Graces Guide
in Wavertree, Liverpool.
1868 Description of the Dudlow Lane Extension of the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, with drawings of the Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell pumping engine[1]
1886 Tender. "Messrs. Sampson, Moor and Co., for the supply of a new steel piston rod for the "Thomas Duncan" engine, at Dudlow-lane pumping station, at the price of £24 6s. (the old piston rod to became their property)"[2]
George Watkins photographed the engine in 1935. He recorded that it worked at 34 rpm with steam at 60psi, raising water from a well 230 ft deep and raising it 180ft. The engine was scrapped in 1947[3]
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