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The Grade II listed pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company at Hatton on the recent open day. The first part was built in 1892 in an Italianate style to house two compound rotary beam steam pumping engines. This was followed in 1898 with the erection of a horizontal cross compound rotary steam engine and then in 1907 a horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine was added. Steam was replaced over the period 1937-1959 when oil engines driving electric spindle pumps were installed in the former boiler house. Today the pumping station has been converted to apartments although a small museum of surviving oil engines and equipment is open on four days a year.

Bellis & Morcom crude oil engine, one of a pair installed in 1937 at the Hatton pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company. The engines drove generators providing power to a number of spindle pumps over the boreholes. The pumping station has been converted to apartments but the remaining equipment is open to view on four days a year.

A view through the skylight from the oil engines in the former boilerhouse at Hatton Pumping Station during the recent open day.

The Grade II listed pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company at Hatton on the recent open day.The gable ends once fronted the boiler house for the three different sets of pumping engines that were installed here between 1892 and 1907. The buildings have now been converted to apartments.

Bellis & Morcom crude oil engine, one of a pair installed in 1937 at the Hatton pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company. The engines drove generators providing power to a number of spindle pumps over the boreholes. The pumping station has been converted to apartments but the remaining equipment is open to view on four days a year. On this particular snowy day my friend and I were the only people to visit this fascinating little museum.

The Grade II listed pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company at Hatton on the recent open day. The first part was built in 1892 in an Italianate style to house two compound rotary beam steam pumping engines. This was followed in 1898 with the erection of a horizontal cross compound rotary steam engine and then in 1907 a horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine was added. Steam was replaced over the period 1937-1959 when oil engines driving electric spindle pumps were installed in the former boiler house. Today the pumping station has been converted to apartments although a small museum of surviving oil engines and equipment is open on four days a year.

The Hatton works of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Undertaking was completed in stages commencing with the building on the right which housed two compound rotary beam engines which commenced working in 1892. Further extensions with horizontal pumping engines were commissioned in 1898 and 1907. The engines have long gone and the buildings are now undergoing conversion to apartments.