Lewes, East Sussex (click on photograph to bring up bigger/better version).

All photos by Paul Snelling - thanks, Paul.

	A Grade II-listed lead pump over a well at Southover Grange, at the junction of Grange Rd and Southover High St., Lewes. Originally it would have been wooden-cladded, but the wood has rotted away, leaving just a cast iron frame, the iron pump handle, the lead tank with a lead side-spout (or "nose") and a lead "rat's tail" downpipe. The tank is embellished with two figures wearing crowns, arms crossed over their chests, and what look like some strategically placed bunches of grapes. Between the two figures is a tree motif, the date 1789, and the initials NWA, but I've not yet determined what these stand for. The house was built in 1572 by William Newton, the Earl of Dorset, but I believe that it had gone out of the hands of this family by 1789. Markings: None other. Manufacturer: Unk.
	Another Grade II-listed pump, cast iron-clad and described by English Heritage as "coffin-shaped". It's at the junction of Cliffe High Street and South Street, Lewes, carries the prominent date 1830, and has a chained-down handle and a separate cast iron trough. It is very similar in design to one in Hartfield, East Sussex, dated 1831, and almost certainly made by the same manufacturer. Markings: None other. Manufacturer: Unk.

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