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Linking the various tanks and pumping equipment
are a number of cast iron 12 inch diameter pipes.
The picture on the left shows the pipe
leading from the Pumping Station to Cinderford that would have taken the
water supply for the town to the water reservoir at Haywood where it could
be distributed across the town. Also visable is a small pipe leading to the
Chief Engineers Home and a more modern pipe that supplied the Pumping
Station own requirements.
The picture on the right shows the former
pipe which it is believed supplied water north towards Mitcheldean. This has
been capped and the connecting wall blocked probably when alternative
supplies became available from Wigpool.
The picture on the shows a filtration box on
the pipe taking water from the Pumping Station to Cinderford. The picture on
the right shows the incoming pipe taking water from the collecting tank to
the pumping area.
A view into a large tank on the north side of
the property that seems to be connected to the new pumping engine and well
head on the east side of the property. This was a major development in the
first part of the 20th century when electric replaced the original steam
driven pumps. The tank seems to be a deeper collecting tank than the
original to which it is also connected.
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