Claymills Sewage Works c.1870
MY ASSUMPTION: This plan shows the original sewage works. This is before it was decided to pump the effluent, consisting mainly of brewery waste, to Etwall.…
Claymills Sewage Works c. 1925
Stuart Haywood says: Maurice Cass is quite right, the lagoons were cooling ponds. When I started working at Clay Mills in 1966 all 4 beam engines were still…
Claymills Sewage Works c. 1925
Stuart Haywood says:
By the late 50’s the plant was receiving a dry weather flow somewhere in the region of 7.5 million gallons per day but with all 4 beam…
By the late 50’s the plant was receiving a dry weather flow somewhere in the region of 7.5 million gallons per day but with all 4 beam…
Claymills Pumping Station
Claymills Sewage Pumping Station 1928 from .
Maurice Cass says: The ponds you can see in the foreground is the cooling water for the beam engines and takes no…
Maurice Cass says: The ponds you can see in the foreground is the cooling water for the beam engines and takes no…
Etwall Sewage Farm
Maurice Cass says:Some of the land was leased to a local farmer who grew wheat, linseed, and oil seed rape. The land that received the sludges was never used…
Etwall Sewage Farm
This is an enlargement of middle of the middle section of the map. Says Maurice Cass:
Running the 'farm' took a lot of organisation and forward planning usually…
Running the 'farm' took a lot of organisation and forward planning usually…
A Fowler Steam Engine with Winch.
Says Maurice Cass: The Fowler ploughing engine had an underslung wheel onto which was wound a steel rope. The ends of the rope were attached to the plough.…
George Mander 1925 -2016
George was the last Burton Corporation Pumping Station chief engineer and was also well known in the steam preservation world. He began work at Claymills in the…
Boiler House and pumphouse is on the right.
After closure George continued to keep the boilers warm and looked after C and D engines as best he could for many years. Severn Trent Water continued to use…
Top of the Cylinder
Maurice Cass says:
George Mander is the unsung hero for the saving of the steam engines. In the latter stages of its use they had to rob parts from the A and B…
George Mander is the unsung hero for the saving of the steam engines. In the latter stages of its use they had to rob parts from the A and B…
The Beam
Says Maurice Cass:
George rescued a lot of the stationary engines and placed them in museums and workshops elsewhere to preserve them from being scrapped. The…
George rescued a lot of the stationary engines and placed them in museums and workshops elsewhere to preserve them from being scrapped. The…
Probably an antisurge vessel
The Pump Hall
Left to right: Controls , Steam cylinder, columns supporting the beam pivot and the flywheel
The Flywheel
Says Maurice Cass:
The engine houses were broken into and the main bearings for the flywheels were stolen. These were huge bronze bearings and they were taken…
The engine houses were broken into and the main bearings for the flywheels were stolen. These were huge bronze bearings and they were taken…
The Sewage Pump
Inlet / outlet pipework?
The Workshop
Almost all the machinery in here is still steam driven via a overhead horizonal shaft with belts and pulleys connecting each machine to the shaft. The steam…
Workshop Pump
This small steam engine drives the overhead shaft that drives the lathes, drills and milling machines in the Workshop using pulleys and belts.
The Dynamo House
The lagged steam pipe passes from one building to the next.
The Steam Engine for driving the Dynamo
The brass thing in the middle if the centrifugal governor.
Electricity Supply Switch Panel
The dynamo produced direct current. (DC)
