Hethersett (click on photograph to bring up bigger/better version).

A large pump capped with a crown by the side of the old Newmarket Rd (B1172) at Hethersett, Norfolk. A number of these pumps were installed along this road in the early 19th Century by the Turnpike Trustees, and were used "to provide water for experiments in roadmaking as well as for laying the dust". There's another survivor just up the road at Cringleford. Markings: "SHALDERS PATENT NORWICH", "POWERLINE", and "BARREL xxx" [last letters obliterated] . Manufacturer: Shalders.

|Back|Home|