NHER 10260 (Monument record) - Remains of a steam or oil powered drainage mill
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | POSTWICK WITH WITTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
26 September 1979. Site visit.
Draining pump. Iron wheel, with two sets of spokes, for belt drive, remains on concrete column. Next to it a large iron tube, possibly for a scoop wheel, or a vertical pump, emerges from a brick sluice. Tree growing up inside.
A modern pump house stands to the east.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 September 1979.
Unpublished document (S1) notes: There was a steam engine house here in a wooden shed on brick foundations that remain. It worked until 1912 when replaced by oil engine with two flywheels started by a gas cylinder. There was a huge iron tube fitted with a pulley and a turbine. A slip dyke led to the building possibly for wherries to unload coal which was not kept indoors.
These features are extremely unusual and should be preserved.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 July 2007.
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Record last edited
Dec 2 2022 11:39AM