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The Basford beam engine

This Woolf compound beam engine was built by R & W Hawthorn of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1858.  

It was installed in the Basford (Bagthorpe) water works building on Haydn Road and pumped water from a 110 foot borehole in the Sherwood sandstone to either Bell Vue reservoir on Mapperley road, or Mapperley reservoir on Mapperley Plains, 155 and 255 feet above the engine respectively.  It worked continuously for 107 years. 

Re-erected on the present site in 1975, it was got workingd again in 1977, albeit only pumping water to cool itself.  

Nottingham Arkwright Society look after it and 

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Last modified: October 15, 2006