2010

TG3802 : Hardley Windpump - The Turbine

taken 14 years ago, near to Hardley Street, Norfolk, England

Hardley Windpump - The Turbine
Hardley Windpump - The Turbine
The original 1874 turbine was found at the bottom of the well in silt clearance. A new one has been made for eventual pumping.
Hardley Windpump

Hardley windmill is a drainage windpump operating as a museum beside the River Yare. Once part of a pumping complex, there was another mill not too far away, along with a steam pumping station. Oddly the windmill replaced the steam engine. The windpump powered by an Appold turbine Link capable of rising 12 tons of water per minute via a 12 ft high vertical shaft of 5 ft in diameter Link. Built in 1874 for Sir Thomas Proctor Beauchamp (owner of Langley Hall) Link by the Ludham millwright Dan England. During construction a lean developed. The brickwork angle changed near the top to compensate for this. It operated until about 1950 when it was tailwinded* abandoned and replaced by an electrical drainage pump.
It is now open at weekends with a visitor centre. Link.

*When a mill is tailwinded it means that a sudden and violent change of wind direction has blown the sails off. The fantail can only take the sails in one direction.


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TG3802, 160 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ashley Dace   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 28 August, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 29 August, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 387 024 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:34.0471N 1:31.2730E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TG 387 024
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South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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