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Description: | Drainage engine used for clearing Pinchbeck Marsh. Engine house of red brick with hipped slate roof; cast-iron windows and doors, and a date stone of 1833. The chimney has been demolished to eaves level. Inside, the building is divided by a spine wall; to one side is a boiler, manufactured by Galloways Ltd and dated 1893. The adjacent beam engine is probably the original one with later alterations: there is no maker's plate, and it has a high pressure cylinder as well as the normal low pressure one. The flywheel drives, via reduction gears, a swop wheel. Well maintained and in a good state of preservation - The Internal Drainage Board aims to keep this in very good condition, and consequently they spend a fair amount of money on it.{1} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1800 - 1899 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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