Clavering, Essex (click on photograph to bring up bigger/better version).

All photographs supplied by John Hurst - thanks, John.

This highly unusual pump in Clavering, Essex, is very similar to one at Elmdon, Essex, and West Wratting, Cambs, and is clearly by the same manufacturer. The theory of operation is explained under the West Wratting entry, but this pump still has its flywheel and weights in place. We've been informed that originally the pump had wooden cladding. Markings: None. Manufacturer: Possibly Charles Lack of Cottenham.

A nicely-kept example at Mill Lane, in Clavering, Essex. Markings: Obscured by multiple layers of paint, but almost certainly "APPLEBY & CO., PATENTEES, RENISHAW IRON WORKS, DERBYSHIRE". Manufacturer: Appleby of Renishaw.

	The pump on Middle St., Clavering, Essex. It carries a badly weather-worn plate with just a few words which can be made out from the photograph:
	...AFFRON... MAGISTRATES COU... PERSON FOUND ...A... THIS PUMP WILL BE PROS...	Which looks like a warning from the Saffron Walden beaks that anyone damaging the pump would be prosecuted.
	Markings: An obscured plate on one side looks from the photograph as it it might carry the Paragon "Flag" motif. Manufacturer: Paragon, i.e., latter-day Lee Howl.

At the western end of Clavering, Essex. Markings: None. Manufacturer: Unk.

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