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Old pumping station at Old Mill Drove near Welches Dam


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old tin pumping house by Eddy Edwards
Photo: EE, April 2011
This old pumping station is situated where a track named Old Mill Drove joins the unclassified road running alongside the Counterdrain/Old Bedford River, about 350 yards north of the EA's Welches Dam Pumping Station.

It drains or drained fenland to the west into the CD/OBR. It is constructed of timber boards with a corrugated tin roof and appears to be long disused. Oddly, it is shown on the Manea & Welney DDC's area plan of 2011 where it is named Welches Dam PS; yet their policy statement refers to only two pumping stations, presumably Glen House (Colony) and Purls Bridge.

KSG Hinde, in his 2006 book Fenland Pumping Engines, p54, names it Purls Bridge PS, and says it probably dates to the 1920s when a diesel engine and pump seems to have replaced the windpump shown here on 1st edition OS maps. He thinks probably operational to about 1975.

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old tin pumping house by Eddy Edwards
Photo: EE, April 2011
 
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