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"Surrey Docks windpump, Downtown"

Note on reverse: "If the Cretan plain wh. is thickly sown with jib-sailed irrigation windpumps only had one, that is how insignificant, this erratically-rotating, white-sailed windwheel wd look, as it does from any distance in the 'plain' of the infilled open Downtown wasteland. But imagine the whole wasteland dotted with them! a mere white rotating pimple on the landscape."

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "showing [?] [?] reinforced plastic feed pip to (what I'm told is a) chain-pump in base, diving into soil, to adjacent area of water, from which allotment holders laboriously scramble down to & collect water in plastic containers. Total lift must be some 3-4m, no more, delivery pipe going off on left (see other photo). Mouth of feed pipe not seen. Flow (as, I noticed it) in a light fluctuating breeze varied from tiny trickle in delivery pipe to that of a fairly powerful domestic tap fully on. insofar".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "Note: this windmotor is left with its (usable) sailcloths, partly unfurled as here all the time".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "Sails backwinded with wind at c90° to tailvane, due (apparently) to slight & erratic sticking of cap, which was weathercocking v. freely most of time, even when wind wdn't start sails".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "temporarily backwinded, sue (apparently) to erratic, occasional & unpredictable sticking of mill-head, not because tailvane's too small".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "Back or rather side-winded, nearest sail filling for backwards, further jib-sail filling forwards".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Surrey Docks windpump"

Note on reverse: "standing at or close to bottom of bank by stretch of water, not filled in, from wh. it draws its supply - it is standing on the large Downtown area, encompassed by Rotherhithe & Redriff Sts, infilled since docks shut a fascinating flat empty open deserted hard, cracked & vegetation-covered waste-land (2 small areas allotments, the mill being by 1 of them). In actuality, the pump, near one edge of it, altho' of course it can be seen from afar is dwarfed into insignificance by this incredible wasteland at any distance".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

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