Buckshole Pumping Station
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Pumping Station no. 2 (Buckshole) located in Alexandra Park - now the cafe adjacent to the entrance to the park-keeper's yard off St. Helen's Road[1]. The original station was built in 1877 and featured a beam-engine driving a double-acting pump and triple throw pump sets with a further engine driving a centrifugal pump. Steam power was provided by an adjacent boiler house; the water being sourced from seven wells in Alexandra Park and supplying the Halton, and Amherst Road areas[2]. Water from the nearby Buckshole Reservoir was gravity-fed to St. Leonards. The current building was constructed in 1977.
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- ↑ Pumping in the Park and Old Roar Waters (G. Coleman 2000)
- ↑ British Newspaper Archive Hastings & St. Leonards Observer 22 January 1876 Pg. 0004
