The Pinchbeck Engine

The Land Drainage Museum

 

The object in the middle of the floor is a man powered pile driver.

Drainage exhibits in the old coal store

A small stationary I/C engine sits by the forge. The bellows are to the left.  All the equipment, even the drill, is hand powered.  Bench vice, hand tools and pipe threader.

The blacksmiths shop behind the coal store has been restored to its working condition

 

A Priestman dragline excavator used to clean out the drainage channels. The small brick building houses electric pumps. Gwynnes rotary pump. More pumps

Larger items are displayed in the grounds.

The railway system is rather minimalist. The object on the left is a Jim Crow used for bending rails.  The builders plate from the Pode Hole Station engine Kesteven. Built by Fenton & Murray of Leeds it was rebuilt as piston valve engine by James Watt and Co. in 1881. The engine was scrapped in 1952.

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