Upton St. Leonard's Pump (click on photographs to bring up bigger/better versions).

upton st leonards A very unusual pump with a wooden flywheel at the back of the Old School House in Upton St. Leonards, Glos. Respected Victorian architect Henry Woodyer (1816-1896), known mainly for his church restorations and building of schools and vicarages, built it in about 1850 at the same time as he built the school. There's a 1957 photo in existence which shows schoolchildren operating the pump, along with a comment that although mains water was by then laid on, they still used the pump for watering the garden.

Markings: None.

Manufacturer: Unk.  		 upton st leonards
upton st. leonards Left: Detail, showing the crank and the pierced and metal-banded flywheel.

Right: Detail, showing the wrought iron finial, much of which has been lost.		 upton st leonards

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