extended with new pumping machinery installed at each stage to keep place with demand and the latest innovations in pumping technology. The Waterworks operated until 1976 by which time the pumps were electrically [...] instrument that started the ball rolling. By 1856 the Hereford Pumping Station was built and, using a Simpson beam engine, started pumping water from the River Wye to filtration beds and reservoir on high [...] range of working pumping equipment can still be seen and on steam days the sounds, sights and smells of the waterworks can be fully experienced. There is also a fine collection of water pumps, designated as

below the surface, was completed in 1882. The pumping station was built in 1895, and new pumps and other machinery were installed in 1927-29. The pumping station was opened as a museum after modernisation [...] modernisation and the installation of electrically-driven pumps and compressors in 2001.

and drain it to the sea. With four steam pumps, it was the largest pumping station in the delta. Steam turbines were installed in 1921 to power electric pumps. The site was taken out of service in 1969 [...] Land drainage is vital in the Po delta. Pumping is a tool to drain the marshes and reclaim agricultural land. The Ca' Vendramin pumping station, 50 km south of Venice, was completed in 1903 to raise water

Cambridge of dreamy medieval colleges and spires, lies the first pumping station in the world powered by re-processed household waste. Before the pumping station was built in 1894, untreated sewage from Cambridge [...] built two and a half miles away at Milton and was supplied by the pumping station at Cheddars Lane. To generate steam to work the pumps it was decided to charge the boilers with household and trade waste [...] general waste. The importance of the building has been recognised by Scheduled Monument status. The pumping station has been lovingly renovated by a group of enthusiasts. Re-christened the Cambridge Museum

labour in 1967, and by 1975 water was again being pumped from the River Avon to the canal. A waterwheel, 5.2 m in diameter and 7.3m wide drives the pumps through a pit wheel 5 m in diameter. Navigation was [...] Claverton Pumping Station, alongside the Kennet & Avon Canal, 4 km from the centre of the city of Bath, lifted water from the River Avon to the canal, and is itself operated by water power. The canal, [...] boats could progress to the River Thames at Reading) to the Bristol Avon below Bath in 1810, and the pumping station began operating three years later. The Kennet & Avon Canal was neglected in the late nineteenth

sugar works in other cities. Water for the fountains at Sanssouci is now provided by electric pumps, but the pumping station is open to the public and there are displays providing information about its architecture [...] The water-pumping station on the banks of the Neustadter Havelbucht in Potsdam is one of the most extraordinary industrial buildings in Europe. Its purpose was to accommodate an 81.4 hp steam engine built [...] built in Berlin by the young August Borsig (1804-54) that was used to pump water from the River Havel to the fountains in the Sanssouci Park. It was built in 1841-43 at the command of King Frederick William

Corporation established a pumping station to extract water from underground sources. It is now a place for education about water. Originally there were two 410 hp triple expansion pumping engines supplied by [...] engine house. One has been scrapped but the other remains as part of the centre. In 1940-41 the pumping station was supplied with a third engine, the last steam engine built by Worthington Simpson of Newark [...] The centre also displays artefacts from water supply installations at Dover and Folkestone. The pumping station was originally supplied with coal by a narrow gauge steam tramway from a wharf on the River

Victorian pumping station and is crammed with tools and equipment from the period, all kept in pristine condition. There are over 29 working stationary steam engines including four large pumping beam engines [...] electrical generator in Britain and a large steam driven workshop. But the story behind the need for the pumping stations is equally as fascinating. It seems that the town of Burton-upon-Trent faced more sewage [...] dispose of). The answer was to build a sewage farm at Egginton but to get the sewage there a large pumping station had to be build at Claymills. This is a Family Friendly site where children get the chance

supplement the natural flow by pumping from groundwater supplies and a series of steam pumping works were built along the New River. Nearest the source is the stunning Broadmead Pumping Station in Ware still complete [...] complete with chimney although the original beam engine has been removed. The pumping station at Turnford still contains the original James Watt & Co engine. The water is conveyed 32 km in a channel that [...] full length of the New River describing the many conserved features including cast iron bridges and pumping stations that line the route.

kind in Europe when it was completed in 1888. The pumping houses resemble palaces with their principal elevations facing the lake. The three steam pumping engines worked until 1979, and one of them can still [...] development of sewage disposal in the city over 120 years. Some large artefacts relating to water supply, pumps, pipes and valves, are displayed in the park.

The pumping station at Crofton was built in 1807-09 and was one of the principal sources of water for the Kennet & Avon Canal which opened in 1810. Boulton & Watt supplied one of the surviving engines [...] ‘practical engineers’ who tended the engines in 1861 were both Cornishmen, from Phillack and Redruth. The pumps supply the summit pound of the Kennet & Avon Canal. Springs fed a pound below the lock which became [...] nineteenth and early twentieth century after it passed into the ownership of the Great Western Railway. Pumping at Crofton ceased in the 1950s, and the British Transport Commission announced plans to close the

one too, when steam pumps finally gave way to the more efficient diesel. Here at Prickwillow, the surface of the river is over a metre below the outfall on the Wash in Norfolk, so pumps had to be efficient [...] the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens. Man´s struggle to control this landscape took many generations and [...] efficient. On running days, the Museum powers up its original Mirlees pumping engine, dating from 1924 and believed to be the only blast-injection engine remaining in working order. See too, the Vickers Petter

the Wouda Steam Pumping Station's machine room near the village of Lemmer in Friesland. The four double steam engines, coupled with powerful flywheels driving eight round centrifugal pumps, are all sparkling [...] is still in action - as support of electrically-driven pumping stations in case of storm and strong waves. Thus, the world's largest steam pumping station has more than earned its reputation as world heritage

of the pumping stations. The Herculean task was to dry out an area of water covering more than 18,000 hectares. You can now find out how it was done in the museum of the old De Cruquius pumping station [...] King William I of the Netherlands had a choice between 240 windmills or three coastal pumping stations. He could not afford to waste time because every year violent storms beat against the banks of the [...] inside is the largest steam engine ever built. Its cylinder is no less than 144 in diameter and it can pump 320,000 litres of water per minute. The best thing about it is that it is back in working order.

towers for drilling and pumping brine from underground were put up in 1912 by the chemical company Schweizerische Sodafabrik (SOLVAY). When the company discovered hot water, it was pumped to thermal baths in [...] through viewing holes if the tower is closed or they can go inside as part of a guided tour. The brine pump can be started by pushing a button.

The Water Museum of Thessaloniki is housed in the historical building complex of the first pumping station of the city. It was built in the late 19th century (1890-94) by Belgian engineers, being part [...] industrial centre and shows that water history goes hand in hand with the history of the city. The old pumping station consists of the engine room, the boiler room and the coal storage room, reflecting clearly [...] and documents from the rich archives of EYATH. There is also an outdoor water park with historical pump units on display, functional for young visitors to enjoy.struments and tools.

in the old part of the city. The first steam pumping station was built in 1863. The museum, at Adazi, 18 km N of Riga, is located in a ground water pumping station of 1904, which has twin horizontal steam

steam-driven pumping station “Vier Noorder Koggen”, with its complete inventory of machinery, offers a fitting framework for the exhibits. Almost all the steam-engines on show and the pumping engine can

and Dundas, a unique water-powered beam pumping engine at Claverton, a flight of 29 locks at Devizes, and a pumping station at Crofton that includes a beam pumping engine built by Boulton & Watt in 1812

September 1854, and operated pumps in nearby lead and zinc mines, although its estimated power output of 200 hp was much more than was required for that purpose. The pump rods were carried on a 34-arch