“Surrey Docks windpump”

£24.00

High resolution digital image from our catalogue

Note on reverse: “showing [?] [?] reinforced plastic feed pip to (what I’m told is a) chain-pump in base, diving into soil, to adjacent area of water, from which allotment holders laboriously scramble down to & collect water in plastic containers. Total lift must be some 3-4m, no more, delivery pipe going off on left (see other photo). Mouth of feed pipe not seen. Flow (*as, I noticed it) in a light fluctuating breeze varied from tiny trickle in delivery pipe to that of a fairly powerful domestic tap fully on. *insofar”.