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Pump House Steam Museum

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Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Pump House Steam Museum
Phone:
+1 613-544-7867

Address:
23 Ontario St, Kingston, ON K7L 2Y2, Canada

Blagdon Lake lies in a valley at the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, close to the village of Blagdon and approximately 10 miles south of Bristol, England. The lake was created by Bristol Water , when it dammed the River Yeo, starting construction in 1898, to designs by Charles Hawksley, and completing this in 1905. The Wrington Vale Light Railway was constructed primarily to bring building materials for the lake. The reservoir was formed by the construction of a dam and provided water to the pumping station which originally contained four Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines, built by Glenfield & Kennedy of Kilmarnock, which have now been replaced by electric pumps. Two of the steam engines have been preserved, with one in working order as part of the visitor centre which also includes educational facilities for children. The pumping station is now a Grade II* listed building. The 8,456,000,000-litre lake still provides 9,547,000,000 litres of drinking water each year, but also acts as a fishing lake. It provides a habitat for a range of flora and fauna and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The original suction tanks, which formed the water supply for the steam boilers powering the pumping engines, are now used for trout rearing.
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