Quiz. Where is this?

[mark99]

[Rob-M]

Crumpwood Pumping station according to Google image search which brings up https://m.facebook.com/RugeleyAndArmitageCameraClub/posts showing the image when they had a club visit.

Another site showing the image https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/crumpwood-pump-house-staffordshire-aug-2019.119880/

[MtB]

22 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Crumpwood Pumping station according to Google image search which brings up https://m.facebook.com/RugeleyAndArmitageCameraClub/posts showing the image when they had a club visit.

Another site showing the image https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/crumpwood-pump-house-staffordshire-aug-2019.119880/

 

Yes I was thinking they look like water pumps. But what are they powered by? 

[Rob-M]

10 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Yes I was thinking they look like water pumps. But what are they powered by? 

From the website I linked to...

 

This little pump house was built (1922-28) to supply the Uttoxeter area with fresh water from nearby springs.

 

It’s unusual in that the pumps were powered by water turbines, using the head provided by an adjacent weir across the River Churnet - this weir was originally built to take a now-defunct canal across the river without needing major engineering works.

 

There are 3 x 11 hp turbines made by Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon Ltd., each working a set of triple ram pumps, which had a combined output of ~ 15,000 gallons/hour under favourable conditions.

[MtB]

Ah thanks. I thought your link was just the image, and I don't 'do' facebook!

 

 

[Heartland]

And no doubt the relationship with waterways was the Uttoxeter Canal of the Trent & Mersey whose engineering was down to John Rennie senior

 

Edited December 4, 2021 by Heartland

[Tim Lewis]

Same place in 2006!

 

 

[mark99]

Crumpwood weir.

[Pluto]

To give a canal connection, Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon are still based at Canal Head, Kendal, https://www.gilkes.com/our-company/our-heritage, and one of the Gilkes was a Director of the L&LC at one time. They may just have built turbines, so the pumps could be by another company, such as Tannett Walker of Leeds.