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More than you ever thought you needed to know about... | Village Pumps | |
| Welcome to this unique website, dedicated to the study of old Village Pumps in the UK, investigating their remaining locations, their design and manufacture, their history, and the relationship to their communities then and now. | From the fanciful: | To the functional: | To the forgotten: | |||
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| The menu on the left should be self-explanatory. The ever-growing Directory is a location index leading to the core of the site, where you can find details and photographs of thousands of old pumps. Check to see if your local pump is included yet and, if it isn't, then why not send me the details, along with a photograph if possible, and I'll add it to the collection. Please note, I'm no longer including any modern pumps, including those highly decorative Chinese-manufactured ones that are widely sold through garden centres. (Excellent value for money, admittedly, and maybe they'll qualify for the website in 100 years or so.) | ||||
The UK Distribution Map provides an alternative method of getting to the pump details. The red numbers that appear against each County/Unitary Authority/Region are derived from the National Register of Village Pumps, which currently totals: |
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| If you'd like to read more, then there's "The Book"... | ||||
| Latest Updates | ||||
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 15 May 2013 Update
to Oxford. Probable supplier, D.Christie,
Coleraine. 12 May 2013 Foxearth, Essex; update to
Little Thurlow, Suffolk. 11 May 2013 Wethersfield, Twinstead and Gestingthorpe, Essex; update
to Stansted Mountfitchet and Rayne, Essex. 10 May 2013 Elsenham, Essex; update to Burton End, Essex. 9 May 2013
Lacock, Wilts. 7 May 2013 Baconsthorpe and Wood Dalling, Norfolk, update to
Swannington and Sparham, Norfolk. Probable supplier,
A.W.Barham, Walsingham. |
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Updated: 15 May 2013 |
Original photographs and text Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 R. K. Williams - exceptions where shown. See also http://www.machynlleth.info and http://www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org.uk |
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