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Title: Burton Agnes Hall, Wooden Wheel for Pumping Water - HLS05709
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Title
Burton Agnes Hall, Wooden Wheel for Pumping Water - HLS05709
Description
Slide 4 - In the outbuilding facing the Kitchen Court is an interesting relic of bygone days - an old wheel some fourteen feet in diameter, made of wood, and formally used for pumping water, by man-power, from a draw well.
As will be noticed, the wheel has two sets of spokes fixed into a wooden shaft in the centre, and the outer rim of the wheel is boarded cross ways, and of sufficient breadth to admit a man getting inside between the two sets of spokes. By walking, or rather running, on the inside circumference of the Wheel, the man's weight would propel and cause it to revolve on its axis, and setting in motion the gearing attached to the pump, and thus draw water from the well, to supply the Hall.
As will be noticed, the wheel has two sets of spokes fixed into a wooden shaft in the centre, and the outer rim of the wheel is boarded cross ways, and of sufficient breadth to admit a man getting inside between the two sets of spokes. By walking, or rather running, on the inside circumference of the Wheel, the man's weight would propel and cause it to revolve on its axis, and setting in motion the gearing attached to the pump, and thus draw water from the well, to supply the Hall.
Creator
George Hepworth
Source
Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society
Date
1905 , 1900s
Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HLS05709.tif
Collection
Citation
George Hepworth, “Burton Agnes Hall, Wooden Wheel for Pumping Water - HLS05709,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7105.
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