Difference between revisions of "Crofton Pumping Station"
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[[Image:Crofton_1_06.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Horn]] oscillating steam engine]] | [[Image:Crofton_1_06.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Horn]] oscillating steam engine]] | ||
[[Image:JD_Crofton_PS03.jpg|thumb|Overcrank engine by Gardiner of Kent, c.1840. Sold secondhand to Elmer’s Mill, Woolpit in 1850, where it worked until the 1940s]] | [[Image:JD_Crofton_PS03.jpg|thumb|Overcrank engine by Gardiner of Kent, c.1840. Sold secondhand to Elmer’s Mill, Woolpit in 1850, where it worked until the 1940s]] | ||
[[Image:JD_Crofton_PS07.jpg|thumb|[[Sunderland Forge]] engine and dynamo from a trawler. C.1924]] | [[Image:JD_Crofton_PS07.jpg|thumb|[[Sunderland Forge and Engineering Co|Sunderland Forge]] engine and dynamo from a trawler. C.1924]] | ||
[[Image:Crofton_1_04.jpg|thumb|Lancashire boiler]] | [[Image:Crofton_1_04.jpg|thumb|Lancashire boiler]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:43, 20 February 2014
Crofton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 3DW.
1812 Boulton and Watt beam pumping engine.
1846 Harvey's beam pumping engine.
Several smaller steam engines.
Coal-fired Lancashire boiler.
The engines are operated on steaming days.