Claymills Victorian Pumping Station

About

One of Britain's largest restored Victorian Steam pumping station. Two operational beam engines and 26 other steam engines. There is also a steam driven workshop with blacksmith's forge. Children can follow the rat trail, start a steam engine or try model making. Light refreshments and bookshop available for the weary.

Restoration work on the engine has been taking place over the last five years and the rapid work on it has been most impressive. It has required major restoration work to allow it to return to steam operation.
A and B beam engines were stopped by the Corporation in 1969, two years before full closure of the steam pumping station and the house was left to deteriorate over many years.
By the time the Trust showed an interest in preserving the site and then managed to gain access, the house had fallen into a poor state with weather getting in through the roof and windows.
Parts of the engines had been removed, the most significant missing part being the governor removed from B engine and taken as a decorative feature for the new treatment works and later scrapped.