APPENDIX I

Fig 21

Erection of the second beam at Ryhope, Sunderland, c1868

APPENDIX I

Provisional list of Pumping Stations with house-built beam engines, designed by Thomas Hawksley or T. & C. Hawksley.

*Date* (1)	*Undertaking*	*Location*	*Style* (2)	*Plant* (3)	*State* (4)
1830-32	Nottingham	Trent Bridge	Neo-Classical	1R	dem,
1846-	Coventry	Spon End	Neo-Classical	1R	dem.
1847-	Lincoln	Boultham ?	Italianate/Neo-Class	1C	dem.
1847-49	Sunderland	Humbledon	Neo-Classical - plain	1C	good
-50	Darlington	Tees Cottage	Gothic	3xlR	pres
1849-	Derby	Little Eaton	Gothic	2C	dem.
-50	Nottingham	Park (Ropewalk)	Gothic	1C	st.
-52	Sunderland	Fulwell	Gothic	2R	good
-57	Nottingham	Basford.	Jacobean	2R	dem.
1857-	Coventry	Spon End	*Neo-Classical	1R	dem.
1858-59	Norwich	Heigham	Brick Italianate	1R	good
1858-62	Merthyr Tydfil	Penybryn	Gothic – v. plain	2R	dem
1859-	Stockton & M	Broken Scar	Brick Italianate	?	dem.
-75	Derby	Little Eaton	*Gothic	2C	good
-63	Sunderland	Cleadon	Italianate	2C	good
-64	Stockton & M.	Broken Scar	*Brick Italianate	?	dem.
-68	Nottingham	Basford	*Jacobean	2R	dem.
-69	Sunderland	Ryhope	Jacobean	2R	pres
-70	Ormskirk	Halsall Lane	Jacobean	2R	good
pre-73	Banbury	Grimsbury	Jacobean	1R	st.?
1871-75	Nottingham	Bestwood Park	Venetian Gothic	2R	st.
1873-79	Sunderland	Dalton-le-Dale	Venetian Gothic	2C	poor
1873-	Lichfield	Walsall Road	Picturesque Gothic	2R	dem.
1877-	Southport	Springfield	Venetian Gothic	2R	???
1877-80	York	Acomb	Tudor	2R	dem.
1878-81	Norwich	Heigham	*Brick Italianate	2R	good
1878-	Bridgwater	Ashford Mills	Gothic	2R	st.
1882-84	Gt. Yarmouth	Ormesby	Brick Italianate	2R	good
1887-91	Cambridge	Fulbourn	Tudor	2R	good
-92	Hinckley	Snarestone	Gothic	2R	st.
1892-	Banbury	Grimsbury ?	*Jacobean	1R	st.?
1893-	Coventry	Whitley	Venetian Gothic	2R	st
1900-04	Darlington	Tees Cottage	*Gothic	1R	pres
1900-05	Bristol	Blagdon	Tudor	2x2R	pres
xxx	Stockton & M.	Broken Scar	*Brick Italianate	?	dem.
1906-09	Norwich	Heigham.	*Brick Italianate	1R	good

Notes to Appendix I

(1) Dating.

Many Hawksley drawings are not dated, particularly the first for any undertaking, for which the heading, e.g. ‘Merthyr Tydfil Waterworks’ was presumably adequate. The first part of the date given here is normally the date of the drawings where these survive and are actually dated, although sometimes the dates are from non-architectural drawings which clearly relate to the same scheme.

The second part of the date given is intended to be the date of 'setting to work', which would normally be quoted by a water undertaking in any published description, or it is the date inscribed on the buildings or affixed to the engines, where these have been seen.

However, there are difficulties:

(a) It was not uncommon for wells to be sunk and for temporary pumps to be installed to assess yield, and the date of this is sometimes quoted as the date a station was 'set to work'. e.g. Seaton (Sunderland), (not a beam engine house .’. not included above) is quoted as set to work in 1896, although the drawings for it are dated 1904.

(b) Bestwood contained, until 1967, engines dated 1873, and it is assumed to have started work then, but there are architectural drawings dating from 1871 to 1875. The later drawings may suggest that some architectural details (e.g. the porch) were not finalised until after the works was sufficiently advanced to start operation.

(2) Style.

It is not always easy to give stylistic labels to these buildings, but an attempt has been made. An asterisk indicates that this is an additional building, and that some attempt has been made to match the style of existing Hawksley buildings at the same installation.

(3) Plant.

The number and type of engines originally installed:

R = Rotative; C = Cornish.

(4) State.

Condition of buildings, where known, Summer 1985.

Pres Preserved (although not necessarily in fine condition)

Good Good condition and well maintained.

St. Standing and largely intact (some in this category may be in good condition but they have not been seen by me).

Poor Serious decay has set in.

Dem. Demolished.

The majority of stations have had their chimneys demolished even if they are otherwise maintained in good condition.

? = some uncertainty in identification

??? = no reply to my letters to the appropriate Water Authority.

xxx = it is known that a works was built at this site at approximately the date indicated, but firm dating evidence is missing

APPENDIX II

List of towns with which Thomas Hawksley was associated for water supply, gas supply, or main drainage.

Water supply:

Pumped systems:-

Nottingham, Derby, Darlington, Stockton, Middlesborough, Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Sunderland, York, Southport, Cambridge, Coventry, Oxford, Worcester, Lowestoft, Barnstaple, Bridgwater, Hinckley, Lichfield, Newark, Northampton, Southend, Weymouth.

Stockholm, Altona.

Work for Newcastle-on-Tyne and Bristol in hand at the time of his death.

Gravity supply from ‘high gathering grounds’:-

Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester, Leeds, Huddersfield, Weardale (inc.Durham), Rochdale, Barnsley, Boston, Haslingden, Merthyr Tydfil, Waterford, Wexford, Yeovil.

Bridgetown (Barbados).

Gas works:

Nottingham, Derby, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Sunderland, Lowestoft, Newark, Bishop Auckland, Folkestone, Normanton, Gosport, Barnsley, Burton-on-Trent, Oxford, 'Radcliffe and Pilkington.

Bombay, 'some of those of the Danish Company'.

Sewerage:

Birmingham, Worcester, Hertford, Windsor, Whitehaven, Aylesbury

Warsaw.

Source: Obituary Notice in

Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers,

Vol CXVII pt iii (1893-94)

with some additions from contract notes in periodicals etc.

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