NHER 2594 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval drainage pump

Drainage pump. Formerly a windmill as shown on (S1), at which time drain known as Ferry Mill Drain. Replaced by steam engine 1842 (now called Engine Drain). Later converted to oil. To north a second pump (oil) installed 1924 Now disused and replaced by electric pump across road.
E. Rose (NAU) 1980.

Photograph at Stretham Old Engine museum, Cambridgshire, notes that the building had Headley and Hawthorn engines from 1842 to 1917 and was demolished in 1994.
E. Rose (NLA) 22 April 2003.

(S3) adds the original scoop wheel was replaced in 1881 by one made by James Watt and Co, photograph in (S4). After 1917 a Crossley Premier oil engine was installed in the truncated house but was disused by 1940. The building was destroyed by vandals in 1994. The separate diesel engine was a Mirrlees Bickerton and Day driving a Gwynnes pump. After electrification this was sold to a private collector.
E. Rose (NLA) 22 October 2004.

June 2008.
This building was seen in passing by [1]. It remains as a large Victorian building of coloured brick. It is currently empty but apparently being converted to domestic use.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 4 December 2009.