Photograph album detailing civil engineering work at Dunswell and Cottingham near Hull

Reference No:
C DMX/324/1
Dates:
c.1928
Description:

Photographs within the volume

Dunswell underground works

1. Six 8’ 6” dia. Shafts being bored simultaneously. Shafts nos. 9-14

2. --- ditto --- Shafts nos. 12-17

3. Shaft boring in progress

4. No. 16 shaft. Boring in progress

5. Lowering 7’ 0” dia. Cast iron cylinders into bored shafts

6. Grabbing out trench for 25” pipe line

7. No. 8 lined shaft

Cottingham Waterworks

8. No. 1 lined shaft

9. --- ditto ---

10. Well and shaft segments

Dunswell underground works

11. Temporary pumping plant at Penstock shaft

12. Temporary pumps at no. 1 shaft

13. Temporary pumping plant at No. 7 shaft. 3 milion gallons per day

14. ’Brotherhood’ oil engine and centrifugal pump

15. Main pumping well [wanting]

Dunswell permanent pumping machinery

16. Displacement plungers. Crossheads and girders erected in A.C. Potter & Co.’s

works

17. Pernis type buckets and footvalves in A.C. Potter & Co.’s works

Dunswell underground works

18. Adit photographed from shaft showing pump in shaft

19. Adits breaking through from No. 10 to No. 9 shaft

20. Adit from No. 3 to No. 4 shafts [wanting]

Cottingham

21. Adit from No. 1 shaft

22. Adit showing reinforced concrete linings

23. ‘Robey’ boiler

24. Six wheel Sentinel with ‘Robey’ boiler

25. ‘Davy Paxman’ boiler. Part of a 2 milion per day steam pumping plant

Dunswell permanent pumping machinery

26. Main girders on steam lorry in Dunswell Lane [wanting]

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 volume
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Miscellaneous Deposited Items