The cylinder below the beam of a beam engine , location unknown but believed to be in Norfolk since the photograph was packed with other Norfolk pumping stations.

About 1839 a portable steam engine was produced, allowing the application of steam power in the fields beyond the confines of the farmyard. William Tuxford of Boston, Lincolnshire started manufacture of an engine built around a locomotive-style boiler.

A photograph made by Hallam Ashley of a technical drawing done by John Smeaton in the 18th century.

'Design for a Water Mill for His Majesty's Victualing Office Works at the Red House to be worked by water raised by a Steam Engine'. Transverse and Longitudinal Sections are drawn.
The yard at Deptford became the largest food-processing operation in England. It was largely rebuilt between 1774 and 1785.

Engine

Black and white photograph and digital image of Hildersham Mills Steam Engine House and chimney, viewed from a track with a worker in the foreground.

Stretham is a small village near Ely and is the location of the Stretham Old Pump, a steam powered pump used to drain the fens. The pump is still in use today although converted to electric power.

Stretham is a small village near Ely and is the location of the Stretham Old Pump, a steam powered pump used to drain the fens. The pump is still in use today although converted to electric power.

Stretham is a small village near Ely and is the location of the Stretham Old Pump, a steam powered pump used to drain the fens. The pump is still in use today although converted to electric power.

Burnt Fen is an area of low lying land entirely dependent on pumped drainage to prevent flooding.

The Hobhole Sluice is one of several on the River Witham Navigation. The construction of Hobhole sluice was the first time that a steam engine is known to have been used in connection with Fens drainage. In order to keep the foundations for the sluice free from water, they were pumped out by a Boulton & Watt steam engine, rated at 6 hp (4.5 kW). The machine lasted until at least 1814, just 3 years before the first permanent steam pumping station was built at Sutton St. Edmund in South Holland.[

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed. These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six accumulators, as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees.

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed. These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six accumulators, as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees.

(Photograph used as an illustration in "Some Caribbean Sugar Mills", TIMS 8, 1993).

"Croom Mill Museum 9Co Limerick) 6/98".

Farm steam engine by Lampitt of Banbury

Note on envelope reads "these remains and the adjoining road were obliterated when the airfield was constructed, c 1939-40".