Markings: None.
Manufacturer: Unk.
Right: Detail, showing the wrought iron finial, much of which has been lost.
Upton St. Leonard's (click on photographs to bring up bigger/better versions).
[There's also a replica in Upton.]
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A very unusual pump
with a wooden flywheel at the back of the Old School House in Upton St.
Leonards, Glos. Respected Victorian architect Henry Woodyer (1816-1896), known
mainly for his church restorations and building of schools and vicarages, built
it in about 1850 at the same time as he built the school. There's a 1957 photo
in existence which shows schoolchildren operating the pump, along with a
comment that although mains water was by then laid on, they still used the pump
for watering the garden. Markings: None. Manufacturer: Unk. |
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Left: Detail, showing
the crank and the pierced and metal-banded flywheel. Right: Detail, showing the wrought iron finial, much of which has been lost. |
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Another in Upton St. Leonards, Glos. Thanks to Mike Woolford for
the photo. Markings: Flag. Manufacturer: Lee Howl |
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