Built by the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company in 1876 to house a steam-powered Cornish beam engine which was used to pump water from the River Tyne uphill north to the Whittle Dean Reservoirs NZ0667.
Further steam engine pumps were provided in 1886 and 1894 and operated until 1918 when electrically driven centrifugal pumps were installed. These were uprated in 1950 and used until 1976 when they were replaced by works constructed at Ovingham, 0.5 miles upriver.
New pumps have now been installed within the old buildings which pump drinking water from the Horsley Treatment Works to the area south of the river.
3rd February 2012
See my other photos around Wylam:
- Allendale
- Blanchland
- Broomley
- Bywell
- Cherryburn
- Corbridge
- Corbridge - St. Andrew's Church and Vicars Pele
- Corbridge Bridge and River Tyne
- Heddon-on-the-Wall
- Heddon-on-the-Wall - Hadrians Wall
- Heddon-on-the-Wall - St Andrews Church
- Hexham
- Hexham Abbey
- Hexham Railway Station
- Hexham - River Tyne and Hexham Bridge
- Ovingham
- Ovingham - St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church
- Riding Mill
- Stocksfield
- Wylam
- Wylam - Abandoned Farm
