Sandfields Pumping Station – a great historic building with immense history and social significance – not just to Lichfield, but to the Black Country. Lichfield Discovered and local historian Dave Moore have saved this valuable asset for the community.
Sandfields Pumping Station champion and public historian extraordinaire Dave Moore has been in touch to let me know that this coming Monday (13th February 2017) there will be a public progress meeting for the Lichfield Waterworks Trust charity, formerly the Friends of Sandfields Pumping Station group.
Its worth noting The Trust have announced that they had been successful in securing the building for the future as revealed here last year, and recently gained access to the interior of the pumping station for the first time.
Note the new venue – the meeting takes place at the The Bowling Green pub, Friary Road, Lichfield from 7:30-9pm.
Dave wrote:
Dear Brownhills Bob,
The next monthly open public progress meeting of the Lichfield Waterworks Trust will take place on: Monday 13th February at 7.30pm, in the rear meeting room of the:
The Bowling Green
Friary Road
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS13 6QJTel: 01543 257344
The Bowling Green serves some great food and real ales, so do come along, everyone is welcome.
January Meeting notes can be downloaded here
The countdown begins.
Persimmon Homes Ltd handed a set of keys to the trust on the 1st February to commence a six-month licence to enter the building to conduct a feasibility study.
The aim and objective of this study is to develop and produce a sustainable business plan to demonstrate that as a trust we are capable of managing this site in a business-like manner that clearly outlines how we will deliver an ongoing programme of funding, maintenance and renovation of the site. We will also outline how we will make it accessible, preserve the heritage and give benefit to the community in perpetuity.
Our safety training day on Monday 23 January at Woodhouse Farm went rally well with fifteen people attending. Apart from the cold, we had an amazing day.
These are indeed exciting times, and opportunities to make a difference. It is therefore it is important that we have a robust membership as a record of your support.
So please, join us now by filling in Membership Application Form by going to our membership page here. It is free to join and be a part of this incredibly exciting project.
We have incurred some considerable expenditure covering legal costs, insurance and training. We will always invest in our people, and we are planning further training days soon too. All these costs soon mount up, so if you can donate, then please visit our donation page here, any amount is helpful and well appreciated.
We have incurred some considerable expenditure covering legal costs, insurance and training. We will always invest in our people, and we are planning further training days soon too. All these costs soon mount up, so if you can donate, then please visit our donation page here, any amount is helpful and well appreciated.
You can also do a direct bank transfer:
Bank Details:
HSBC Bank Account Name: Lichfield Waterworks Trust Sort Code: 40-28-18 Account Number: 02050722
or
Please make cheques payable to; Lichfield Waterworks Trust, and send to our address:
22 Walsall Road
Lichfield
WS13 8AB
We do not share your data with anyone else, but we do like to have your details correct. If there are any errors or omissions, please let us know.
Do pop over to Dave Moore’s blog and check out the history of Sandfields Pumping Station, an almost forgotten gem – the group also has a Facebook page.
Dave is, of course, one of the leading lights of Lichfield Discovered, along with Kate ‘Cardigan’ Gomez from Lichfield Lore.
It’s great to see people like Dave encourage a better attitude to our historic buildings, rather than that which we seem to have here in Walsall, where we regard heritage architecture as merely ‘fuel’.
Please do attend if you’re able, it’s sure to be enlightening and educational.
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