Sandfields Pumping Station champion and public historian extraordinaire Dave Moore has been in touch to let me know that this coming Monday evening (8th October 2018) there will be the monthly Public Meeting of the Lichfield Waterworks Trust charity, formerly the Friends of Sandfields Pumping Station group.

The meeting is at the Bowling Green pub, Lichfield from 7:30pm and is of course open to anyone interested.

Dave wrote:

Lichfield Waterworks Trust October News Letter

The next public meeting of Lichfield Waterworks Trust will take place on Monday 8th October 2018 at 7.30pm, in the rear meeting room of:

The Bowling Green
Friary Road
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS13 6QJ
Tel: 01543 257344

The Bowling Green serves some great food and real ales.

This is an incredibly exciting community heritage project, so do come along and become involved, everyone is welcome.

Meeting Notes

August meeting Notes are available here 
September meeting Notes are available here
 
Events

Tonight’s talk is by our very own Alan Hill. Alan has been a member of our team for quite some time now and has done some sterling work renovating the Cornish Beam Engine.
 
Alan is a well-known speaker who can talk about a wide range of engineering and industrial heritage subjects. Born in a shipbuilding town, brought up where “coal was king”, and working in a manufacturing city – Alan developed an interest in industrial archaeology and the development of engineering technology particularly coal mining technology – subjects on which he has had four books published to date.
 
Tonight, Alan is going to tell us all about a recent visit to Springhead Pumping Station, a Grade II Listed Building in Kingston upon Hull. Like Sandfields, Spring Head is a water pumping station still containing an unusual Cornish Beam engine, installed at almost the same time as the one at Sandfields. Being somewhat larger than the Sandfields engine, the Springhead engine has many similarities as well as a number of interesting differences, as the following illustrated talk will show.
 
This promises to be a fascinating evening, so please join us, and bring a friend to find out more. 

Health and Safety
 
We are really pleased to report that we have been working for another month where there have been no incidents relating to health and safety. A very big thank you again to everyone for working safely and looking after your fellow volunteers.

Engineering Team Report

The engineering team are continuing to make steady but continual progress. Read more on the link below.
 
Progress notes from the engineering team are available here.
 
Donations

With over 1,300 volunteer working hours, (equates to more than one full time equivalent) and over £6,000 spent in cleaning equipment, materials and scaffold. This month has seen quite a drain on our bank balance with invoices for the viability study and scaffolding landing on the desk. Looking at the engine now, as opposed to how it looked in 2016, the volunteers have made some remarkable progress.
 
We will also always invest in our people and we are planning further training days soon. All these costs soon mount up, so if you can donate, then please visit our donation page here.
 
Any amount is helpful, is well appreciated and will be carefully spent preserving our industrial past for our future generations, developing skills for our people and making our community a better place
 
Please make cheques payable to; Lichfield Waterworks Trust, and send to our address:
 
22 Walsall Road
Lichfield
WS13 8AB
Membership
 
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We would like this opportunity to welcome a few new members.
Thank you for joining the Lichfield Waterworks Trust. We hope you will enjoy your membership and become part of a very exciting heritage project that will benefit the people, the place and the community.
It would really help us if we develop and grow our membership. If you are not already a member and would you like to be a part of one of the region’s most exciting heritage projects then 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.
 
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Finally

Thank you everyone for your continued support and helping to make a difference in our community.

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 -please do attend if you’re able, it’s sure to be enlightening and educational.