Water Pumping Station
photo curtesy of Robert Williams
c1965
A lovely photograph of the Pumping Station and canal bridge taken from the garden of number 49 Platts Crescent. In the wall along the canal can be seen two patches of new brickwork. The first, below the middle tree in the group to the left of the pump house is where two wooden, green painted gates used to be. These were used when coal was delivered by canal barge to a storage area adjacent to the pump house, the coal was used to feed boilers to raise steam to power the pumps that raised water.
A second patch of brickwork, below the pump house, marks the position of a doorway, which had a wooden green door.
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