NHER 2506 (Monument record) - Martins Farm Pump

Fordham Fen drainage mill.
On (S1). 'Engine' on 1836 Ordnance Survey map (S2) - interesting because if this is the pump described in (S3), its beam engine was installed in 1847. Altered to diesel in 1936; Allen engine beside was used in changeover. Engineers house in front. Chimney base survives as cooling tower.
E. Rose (NAU).

Survey no. P1-10.
Report of pillbox, possibly type 22, now demolished, adjacent covering bridge over Ouse. Date - 1940.
Information from member of the public [1]. See (S4) in file.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

(S5) states that there was a windpump on this site but was indeed replaced by a beam engine in 1847 funded by the Great Eastern Railway as their new embankment took the wind out of its sails. Therefore, most interestingly, the notation on the 1836 map is one of the additions made in about 1860 when the railways were added. (S5) gives the date of the Allen engine as 1909, and of the diesel installation as 1940, in a new house built of the bricks from the old. Converted to electricity 1972.
E. Rose (NLA), 3 December 2003.