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The Victorian water tower at the Broomy Hill treatment works is a historic landmark that can be seen for miles around. This shot was taken from the recreational field at the end of Tower Road.
©Debbie Wingfield
Dist:0.1km<br/>With the Broomy Hill Water Tower on the left.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Breinton Road, Broomy Hill.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.2km<br/>Extension added to house equipment from the Royal Ordnance Munitions Factory at Rotherwas.
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.2km<br/>Tangye horizontal single cylinder diesel engine driving reciprocating pumps. A bit bigger than stationary "barn" engines. The blur shows that it's running.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>On loan from the National Museum of Wales.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the new extension to The Waterworks Museum, Hereford. It was officially inaugurated on 25-6-06 and Sir Neil Cossons of EH was present. I gatecrashed the party and was made most welcome. You can compare this to the earlier photograph from the same corner.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>1895 steam powered waterworks, now a heritage site. Since the photograph was taken the ivy has been removed and a new glass-fronted gallery is to be built on this elevation.
©Chris Allen
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©Paul Buckingham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Triple expansion by Worth, Mackenzie of Stockton on Tees. A most unusual design.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>In addition to the 1895 built inverted vertical triple expansion steam pumping engine, the former Broomy Hill Pumping Station houses this 1906 built inverted vertical duplex rotative pump by Worth Mackenzie & Co Ltd of Stockton-on-Tees. The slide valve cylinders are 14" x 12" and it developed 40 horsepower. It is believed to have stopped in the 1930s and was on standby until 1951. It is now back in steam and demonstrated regularly. There is no other engine quite like it in a UK waterworks.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>On Heritage open day -(Free entry).
©Roger Cornfoot
Dist:0.2km<br/>Impressive Victorian engineering, but now sprouting the inevitable modern technology on the top.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km<br/>And to Hinton F.C.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.2km<br/>A single column, single cylinder rotative beam pumping engine that is on loan from the National Museum of Wales. It was built in 1851 by Harvey of Hayle, Cornwall and used at Ely Pumping Station, Cardiff where it worked for about a century. The cylinder is 20" x 36" and the flywheel is 13' diameter. It was on display and motor driven at the Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum, Cardiff until its untimely closure.
©Chris Hodrien

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