NHER 16716 (Monument record) - Site of Haddiscoe steam pumping station
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TM49NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HADDISCOE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Pumping Station.
Brick building across dyke with well underneath. Timber framed weatherboarded upper storey. About 1850.
Firebox replaced in either 1878 or 1898 (date not clear). Now houses modern diesel pump. Chimney gone.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 3 November 1980.
Apparently demolished and replaced by brick pumphouse.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 April 1982.
(S2) states it was built in 1865; the date on the boiler is 1898; the house has been demolished but the engine is at Strumpshaw Steam Museum.
E. Rose (NLA), 31 May 2000.
The engine was subsequently moved to a museum in Fleggburgh but is now no longer in Norfolk.
A. Yardy (HES), 04 February 2012.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF8808 Fiche: Exists.
- --- SNF87221 Photograph: Ashley, H.. 1971. Six photographic prints of Haddiscoe Pumping Station. Print, b&w.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF57617 Archive: NIAS. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records.
- <S2> SNF48292 Article in Serial: Wood, A.. 1999. A Steam Drifting Over the Reeds.. NIAS Journal. Vol 6, No 4. p 19.
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Record last edited
Jul 23 2013 12:02PM