@@wooltman This is a temple of Omnisaiah :)))). All heretics must knee before this machines. There are some tech priests working on this magnificent machines :))))
Amazing, thanks for sharing. As others have noted...the architecture is just fantastic. Men with PRIDE built that facility, and men with VISION designed, contracted, and used this wonderful facility.
Hi Chris, thanks for your answer, I'm elderly and a retired engineer. Hence my interest in this video, during my time, I've turned and milled large parts for naval ships etc, and can't help but admire the quality of workmanship done by long gone tradesmen. Again my thanks for yyour correspondance. Best regards, John.
I knew it had to be somewhere in Europe where they preserve and cherish their historic architecture and machines. In America, developers would have torn it down, scrapped the machine and built a strip mall or a Wal-Mart. Great video, thank you for sharing.
Yes it is in GB,We have also lost many of these pumping stations,but groups of enthusiasts around the country have got together and saved these lovely machines restoring them to working condition.We are very lucky to have guys like this that spend hours restoring them just for the love of it...Regards Chris
I've cycled past Papplewick many times but never actually found it open. A friend's granddad worked for Notts Council Water dept. One of the things my friend inherited was a water supply map of Notts city: apparently showing which part of the town got its water from where. We never found it but even the knowledge of its existence helped solve a problem. At my work in the city centre just off Old Mkt Square a member of staff was always ill, and swore blind it was the water playing merry hell with her celiac as it only happened there. No one else got ill. She swore also that she jolly well knew her body and knew it was the water as the problem never occurred when she was in our Mansfield Rd office, about 10 mins walk away, or back home. Staff would move offices routinely according to shift. People, of course were divided in opinion, especially as there was only a 1/2 mile between places. Somehow my friend got wind of this and mentioned his granddad's map, saying that it was quite possible she was right. He never managed to find the map, however, but said it dated from the 1970's or 80's.
Thank you for your comment.You should visit if you can it's better seeing the building in the flesh,it's amazing...If you have children/Grand children on the grounds they have a small train you can all enjoy a ride on as well....Well worth a day out to it...Neil Martin has put a link to it in these comments which give the steaming days in 2020.......Regards Chris
I can't imagine that this is in the US. Some bratty kid, from some goofy parents, would have smashed their fingers because they put them where they don't belong and a lawyer sued them and closed down the pump.
@love is my religion - Why the hell are you insulting the guy (wooltman) who filmed, edited, and uploaded this video for us all to enjoy? Were you trying to respond to Shannon Smith’s comment? Ed, Note: ‘love is my religion’ has corrected the comment to be addressed to ‘shannon’ instead of ‘wooltman’ Note as well that I think the comment is silly, but at least now it isn’t addresses to the wrong individual.
@love is my religion I'm not implying anything.I have seen many silly children that should know better than to mess with machinery,then they get hurt...There parents should also look after them better so they didn't get near these fantastic machines that are run for the enjoyment of many.Time you took a happy pill!.
Oh! It's steam fired! That explains the tea kettles. Those must be the steam cylinders driving the thing. I bet the original engineers used the heat to brew their tea. Neat detail!
It's simply unbelievable how much attention the engineers and builders of the past had to detail! Richly decorated columns, with artistic metalwork, base and capital, COLORFUL STAINED GLASS GLASS in the windows and the machine itself is varnished, polished to a shine. And yet, according to today's approach, it is the MOST ORDINARY ENGINE ROOM, which does not have to be beautiful... It really doesn't have to be...? A wonderful marriage of steel and brass. Incredible reliability - in fact, these machines can be used regularly even today!!! Learn, look at how it was done in the past, today's producers of trash and ugliness!!!! Producers of unnecessary disposable bulk...
Things have changed a lot from when they built these pumps, they cared about what it looked like, but only the workers ever saw inside the public couldn't see it. Just amazing building and long may it be used on open days just to show British engineering off at it's best.
@@wooltman "The things have changed a lot", unfortunately for the worse. The widespread mediocrity, quality and reliability are calling for a break. Aesthetics - no words. I have a machine for cutting bread and cold meats in my kitchen. Manual, the one with a crank. Made of cast iron, the cutting disc is of course made of steel. External elements are enameled (not varnished!). I recently replaced the wooden countertop because it was simply physically worn out. How it come? I inherited this cutting machine from my mother, and she inherited it from hers - my grandmother. My grandmother received it from her parents as a teenage girl as part of her maiden dowry (there used to be something like that). So this machine is about a hundred years old, and... it still works. Now, after replacing the countertop with elegant oak, it simply looks new, stylized to look like the old one. Seriously. And you know what? If something is certain in this world, it is that I will never change this device to a "modern" one!!! For two reasons: this item is a material testimony to the continuity of my family, this item is simply made very carefully and it works. But the funniest thing is that many of my friends ask: where did you buy such a stylish piece? So I point to the inscription on the body indicating the name of a well-known Polish pre-war company (Norblin), which even the Germans did not destroy during the occupation. The communists were bothered by... Today, only a few original devices from the Norblin factory remain, and with great effort, the people of Warsaw created a museum, more or less in the place where the factory stood. A bit similar to yours, although of course much more modest. We value our tradition very much too.
Popatrzyłem i zrobiło smutno... Kiedyś maszynownia (ten zabytek odpowiada ni mniej ni więcej współczesnym hydroforniom) wyglądała jak dzieło sztuki. Piękne witraże w oknach, filary zdobione metaloplastyką, wszędzie lad i porządek. Ja wiem ze tej klasy zabytek jest szczególnie zadbany ale stawiam dolary przeciw orzechom że w chwili uruchomienia (pewnie grubo ponad sto lat temu!) wyglądał równie elegancko. Porównajmy sobie współczesne, rzekomo nowoczesne, stacje pomp czy jak kto woli hydrofornie. Wszechobecna rdza, woda kapiąca z nieszczelności, brud i smród... Taka to jest ta nasza "nowoczesność". Nie nowoczesność a bylejakość, tandeta, aby taniej, aby łatwiej... Bardzo to smutne.
Hi Dennis.That is something I will think about,but on these open days it can get a bit crowded and one cannot film it like a documentary,but I will try and get more information about the pumps and add it to the remarks for all to read....Many thanks for your comment........Regards Chris
@@wooltman Beautifully maintained building and grounds. Am curious at 8:25 the steps next to the boiler, were they shaped that way in the beginning or wore down?
If you like this then you should visit the Black Country Museum in Dudley in the W. Midlands of England. It’s called the Black Country because this old heavy industrial area of the industrial Midlands was at one time SO FILTHY WTH COAL, SOOT AND SMOKE that the area was literally black. I was born in the Black Country where the Industrial Revolution was really born. There was an abundance of coal, limestone, fire clay, sand and iron ore everything you need for the production of Iron and Glass. In the 18th and 19th century an immense system of canals were dug by hand, Railways were built and the Industrial Revolution took off. The Museum is AMAZING, it is an outdoor museum with a real village built from real houses and factories of the period. You can go down a real coal mine, travel for miles on the canals and through miles of tunnels. There are a series of 9 locks outside the museum that enabled canal barges to travel over the hill on which Dudley is built. At the end of this series of locks there is a Tenth Lock which is the name of a PUB. You can see a REAL WORKING BEAM ENGINE that was used to pump out the tin mines in Cornwall. It is truly an amazing place. The Black Country dialect is like nothing else you will ever hear, natives of the Black Country can talk in front of Foreigners with impunity knowing that they had little chance of being understood. Sadly it is dying out. I was born in the town of Stourbridge were the very first Steam Locomotive to run on rails in the USA was built, it was called the Stourbridge Lion. The rails that it ran on were made in the USA but they were so weak that the Lion bent them, so heavy duty rails had to be imported from England
Though the Brits made some pretty good systems for distribution of drinking water, sewage and storm water pumping stations, we Indians neglected this aspect after Independence in 1947.Very soon we were wallowing in filth and sewage and drinking doubtful water. Wish we had continued to make as good municipal facilities as these. Then we would not have to live with the dubious distinction of being the country with the largest number of people without proper drinking water and sewage treatment facilities.
BTW: the two engines put out a total of about 500HP., although they don't have to pump the water 150ft uphill anymore. So I suspect they are almost idling now when they run.
wooltman This is actually the third or fourth time I've watched the video and I always think about the fountain. A massive station being used for that always makes me laugh. thought I'd finally share. Anyway, very good video!
Doesn’t seem to be operational as there is no steam leaking past the shaft glands. Probably an electric motor turning the fly wheel. 8:37 lots of wear on those steps !
My dad used to work in a jute mill owned by a Scottish company near Calcutta in the 1940s. He said that the used steam was condensed to make distilled water (for drinking) and the heat from the boilers were used to warm the water for use in the officers bungalows
wooltman a device with 2 balls looking like compass for drawing circles rotating nearby big wheel 1:05 to 1:13, it was invented by james watt along with his invention of paralell motion...
Thanks for that we know what you mean now...This pumping station got me interested in filming other machines,you can see more videos of different stations over G B,some very big ones at London and check out the Giants of Brede amazing.....Check them out!......Regards Chris
@@heronimousbrapson863 This pumping station was obsolete after... say... 75 years. Modern technology will become obsolete after 75 months. So, which one had the better return on investment? Which one was more efficent in the long haul? Which one had the better eco footprint? Can you do any fancy stuff with your 75 months old mobile phone? Like this 100 year old pumping station still could if it would get de-mothballed?
Such beautiful craftsmenship, back when people actually took pride in their work, not like today where nobody gives a shit about anything, today we have an entire society of self entitled losers!
Hi Jeffrey.It is a fantastic building and machine.Hopefully I will get the chance to visit some different ones in the summer months.....Best wishes Chris
Not so much lost technology Moses,but the dedication yes...They still have the technology but it wouldn't be built as well,the work work of course would be shipped out to China for a fast cheap job...Regards Chris
Вот смотришь подобное и удивляешься как такое произведение искусства сохранено в идеальном состоянии, а в россии все бы давно разворовали и сдали на металл… вот и думай
Created in an era when engineered structures were housed in artistically-decorated palaces. Even the prosaic New York subway system's earliest stations were beautifully dressed out in ceramic tile. Now we have to endure "post-modernism" and graffiti-proofing and vandal-prevention in our public spaces. Feh.
It is a shame that we have lost these amazing buildings,it's a good job we have skilled enthusiasts that can restore these machines and buildings for all to see......Best wishes Chris
To busy on the mobile phones...It's not just in Engineering,but everywhere.We are members of other types of clubs,they are all closing due to no younger members coming forward to take on the workings of the clubs.....so sad.
What engineering, both the building and the machine! Now all the world cares about is smartphones, etc. Thanks to all those who work hard to preserve things like these.
These pumps we all built without the use of computers....I agree the guys that look after and restore these machines are second to none...Regards Chris
There is a similar pump in Buffalo, NY, USA. Another beautiful example of the technology. The electric pumps that replaced it are about 1/1000s of the size.
I often wonder if some of the over engineering was done as a buffer because they didn't have the ability to calculate exactly what was needed and what a part could handle, or did they have the ability, and over engineered it anyway, a lot of things built in that era could have be made half the size they were, and still be twice as strong as they needed to be?
Drafting table, paper & pencil... My best work started on graph paper despite the power of my computers. In fact I have designed a few small networks complete with internet connection & data backup starting on graph paper & pencil...
Almost makes me wonder if this was where they pincle in the scene for the Titanic then chopped it through the computer to look fitting for a ship. Interesting to watch these in action.
Hi Kenneth...The decor is nearly as nice as the Titanic,so much detail for just a pumping station that many of the public didn't see in the old days,lucky for us we can enjoy it on these Open/Steaming days......Best wishes Chris
@@kcrreedranch I would have to agree, both terms have probably been used over the years. I had no idea where it came from until I watched a video featuring Jay Leno. Among his collectable are a few smaller steam driven devices. He used the term "Balls to the wall".
This is not a pumping station! This is a real Temple, Prayer House for all steam-punkers, old-timers and teachers of theory of machines and mechanisms! :)) Это не насосная станция! Это настоящий ХРАМ, МОЛЕЛЬНЫЙ ДОМ для всех стим-панкеров, олд-таймеров и преподавателей ТММ (теории машин и механизмов) в вузах ! :))
in my time building belt and chain guards we had 4 finger rule, that is if 4 fingers pass then guard is too open, in saying that fer chrissakes do not do that here. Plenty of ship engineers were killed getting smashed in the engines Aarrrghhh, boy those old engineers could design!! particularly Scots
