NHER 61428 (Building record) - Seven Mile Diesel Engine Pumping Station

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Summary

Relocated diesel pumping station containing two preserved Ruston oil engines powering Gwynnes centrifugal pumps. The installation was built further downriver 1940-41 and housed in a steel clad building erected by Barnes and Pye. The engines worked until 1984 when they were replaced by a new automatic electric pump. In 2003, the whole installation was rebuilt upriver as part of a Flood Alleviation project.

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Map sheet TG40SW
Civil Parish REEDHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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Relocated diesel pumping station containing two preserved Ruston oil engines powering Gwynnes Centrifugal pumps. The installation was built further downriver (TG 447036) in 1940-41 and housed in a green painted steel clad building erected by Barnes and Pye. The engines worked until 1984 when they were replaced by a new automatic electric pump. In 2003, the whole installation was rebuilt upriver as part of a Flood Alleviation project. The building was subsequently re-clad and is no longer painted green.
See (S1) for further information and (S2) shows building in original location.
A. Yardy (HES), 15 February 2016.

  • <S1> Publication: Yardy, A. (NCC). 2008. Mills of the Halvergate Marshes: Reedham Marshes & Ashtree Farm..
  • <S2> Photograph: Knights, M.. 1992. 7 mile Diesels. Colour.

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Mar 13 2017 3:10PM

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