A Look Round The Papplewick Pumping Station
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2019
- Today I am visiting the Papplewick Pumping Station in Nottinghamshire. Ashley Smart is the manager and takes me round to explore the Victorian Utility building - and what a building!
Papplewick Pumping Station, situated in open agricultural land approximately 3 miles by road from the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England. Two beam engines, supplied with steam by six Lancashire boilers, were housed in Gothic Revival buildings. Apart from changes to the boiler grates, the equipment remained in its original form until the station was decommissioned in 1969, when it was replaced by four submersible electric pumps.
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Fantastic building, completely over the top Victorianism but that’s why we love them!
I loved it. Thank goodness for the Victorians.
Gingerbread chapel.
Wow! What a feast for the eyes!!!😍 Especially that pumping room w/ all that wood work, ornamental trimming, stain glassed windows! Ya gotta love those Victorians!
Btw...Nottinghamshire. New county - does this mean this where you explore next?!?!?!
You certainly have to admire the artistry of the Victorians.
Not yet - we stopped on our way to the Peak District and took this one in.
The Victorians could make a water pump station look like art.
They did! :)
Utterly fascinating! So well presented. Thank you Ashley and Richard for this glimpse of another time and world. Inspiring!
So pleased you enjoyed it.
An incredible work of engineering. Hats off to the men who designed and built them. Glorious cast iron sculpture.!
It is amazing eh? I wish we still had this level of pride in building our utility buildings.
WOW. How wonderful was that video, thank you Ashley for explaining everything . Yes I was waiting for the song at the end.
Hahahaha - I think that song has become a hit with everyone.
Just amazing and thanks to Ashley for an excellent explanation of the workings of it. I do wonder at the mindset of the Victorians in building and decorating these enormous utilitarian edifices so beautifully only to be seen by a few while it was in use. Richard kept expecting you to burst into song.
Hahahahah - sorry I didn't break into song!
The archicteture is so stunning, so Victorian. Loved the video.
So pleased you enjoyed it Claire.
thank you, Ashley! what a remarkable place and what a fantastic tour!!!
Richard, you really do find interesting places to visit and people to interview! thank you!!!
I have to thank Kevin for setting up that interview. It was fabulous.
Wow! That was a lovely tour of a cathedral of power and industry. So well explained. It would have been lovely to see and hear it running.
I was looking forward to another rendition of Papplewick's special song, but had to make do with playing 'spot the Kevin' in stead. 😀
How many times did you see Kevin?
To many Richard
@@RichardVobes I stopped counting at nine! :-)
What an incredible place this is. My daughter got married here in 2011, a really unforgettable experience!
A wonderful place to get married!
Used to go here many times when I was a kid, it was apparently my favourite place when I was like 3 or 4.
What an incredible place! Amazing to see the ornate building work for something so practical makes you wonder what happened to our building industry.
We do seem to have lost pride in our buildings these days.
Beautiful
Thanks.
Amazing video. Nice preservation. This is a lovely building and looks like it’s beautifully spit shined and polished! So THIS is a Victorian pumping station. Very cool.
So pleased you enjoyed the video.
This is probably the most interesting video you've ever done Richard...and yes you've done some good 'uns! The Victorian engineers knew how to make things, and make 'em work for years. That building is fantastic. Thanks Richard and Ashley for showing it to us.
So pleased you liked it - you might like this then: czcams.com/video/GKVeAN3aQyw/video.html
@@RichardVobes Went straight to it and loved it. Dunno how I missed that gem, Thanks :-)
" 🎼 🎵🎵 Papplewick Pumping Station, Papplewick Pumping Station, Papplewick Pumping Station 🎵 🎵" (Fascinating place & super video by the way).
I am thrilled you enjoyed the song! :)
Intresting factory 👍🏻
Yes indeed.
WOW!!!! What can you say . The whole thing is just incredible. The victorian's certainly knew how to take a drab work place and turn it into something that you would be glad to get up in the morning to come to work in. In fact probably proud to come to work. Thank you Richard and Ashley for sharing this incredibly beautiful place. Thanks to Maggie for closing all the British mines , coal from Russia ???.
Anyway thanks again for another fasinating episode
Yes, Wow! indeed! - We seem to have lost pride in our modern buildings. I wonder why?
That must have been cutting edge technology back in the day ,built to last as well fabulous 👍
It is just so brilliant.
Fascinating video! It's such a shame buildings are not built with such thought and pride nowadays...
There seems to be a lack of pride these days.
Very enjoyable video. Thanks very much!
Great stuff - thanks so much for watching.
Brilliant Job of putting the first of our videos together Richard well done my friend. The place was incredible so beautiful. Sorry I got in a few shots doing the behind the scenes you should have used a rubber and rubbed me out ;-)
Thanks Kevin for setting up the interview - I loved it there.
Would love to see the pumping station in action. Awesome Victorian engineering!
Yes, me too. Sadly they only have about 8 operating days a year and we missed it by a week.
Bad luck! Perhaps there's scope for a return visit to see it in steam.
That was very enjoyable, that place looks amazing. it must have been very hard work! that is somewhere I'd love to go myself, it's so well architectured.
Well done that was great👍
Definitely worth a trip George.
Often considered a visit to Papplewick Pumping Station but never got round to it. Now I have seen this video, definitely intend to go on a day when they have the steam on.
I think when the steam is on it will be amazing!
An excellent video Richard, interesting and informative
So pleased you enjoyed it.
Great video. Very interesting.
Thank you - I loved my visit.
great video
Thanks very much
Our local pumping station is green and Victorian. In September there is Open House. It's open then for a couple of days.
Are you going to have a look at it?
@@RichardVobes I have seen photographs of it. It's just 'up the road'
Picture this in your mind....... A grown man driving across Colorado East of Denver singing "papplewick pumping staaaaation"🤣
hahahahaah - I hope you sang loud and clear!
the Egyptian god Thoth had the head of an ibis he was their god of wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art, judgment, and the dead. also was tasked with maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at his wife) who stood on either side of Ra's solar barge. ..the ibis is considered sacred as they believed the bird to be the embodiment of Thoth and they mummified millions of them and buried them under the sands of Egypt.Thoth's Egyptian name was Djehuty which means "He Who is Like the Ibis"
Thanks for the extra info on the Ibis - all new to me so loved it.
Let me see if I got that right? You said that you have made a video of the (I believe)B giant pump in Hastings! Would that be the one in the park?
It's these one: czcams.com/video/GKVeAN3aQyw/video.html
It sounded like you were trying hard not to do the song at the end Richard
Yes, maybe I was! I do like to burst into song from time to time.
Richard, you must give crossness engines in Abbey wood a visit. It's on a larger scale than papplewick and more ornate and all it was used for was Sir Joseph Bazalgettes sewage system!
Blimey! Even bigger than Papplewick - that sounds like fun.
Marq English sent me a video. A stroll around Hatchlands. Can you put me back on Facebook then you can see my links I sent you, including Mr English. And as a child coal was delivered to my childhood home. At Kings Cross the new shopping centre coal was stored there for delivery around London.
I have already seen Marq's video. I only blocked you because you were sending loads of inappropriate links via messenger to me. Some of your comments are quite random and don't always make sense so I do not necessarily understand the reason or or the meaning of them.
Interesting memories about the coal that was delivered. :)
@@RichardVobes yes
about the coal.