Report - Anglian Water Pumping Station..Drayton Parslow, May 2023

[Mikeymutt]

Another find by @dansgas1000 and @V50jake and quite a nice little one as well, nice one lads. Visited with man gone wrong on quite a beautiful sunny day. Just a simple brick building which looked like it may have been constructed in the seventies by the bricks. It houses three centrifugal pumps supplied by Harland Engineering company. Not really sure what it was used for, because like Dan says there is no obvious waterway nearby. They might suffer from flooding in the area maybe so could be used in conjunction with that. A car has been burnt out by the side of it. This has allowed the side of the roof to go which is letting the decay in. At the back of the pumping station is a little bit of woodland with loads of bluebells in which was very pretty so took a few photos whilst waiting for my mate.

Who remembers when the millennium was arriving, all computers were going to crash, planes were going to fall out of the sky etc. This was taken quite seriously by companies.

 

[mookster]

Really is a nice little place this one.

 

[Mikeymutt]

Really is a nice little place this one.

I really liked it, the light coming in is lovely.

 

[dansgas1000]

Lovely shots mate and some nice detail shots too. The sunlight coming through is really nice, I was expecting nothing when I went to visit but was a really nice surprise to see all machinery intact. Me finding this and Jake finding Southery has now got us addicted to finding more of these - still got plenty to check out over the course of the next few months. The bluebells are very pretty as well, I did see them on our visit but as usual, me and Jake were rushing around and didn't really get time to photograph them as we went Ascott afterwards.

 

[Mikeymutt]

Lovely shots mate and some nice detail shots too. The sunlight coming through is really nice, I was expecting nothing when I went to visit but was a really nice surprise to see all machinery intact. Me finding this and Jake finding Southery has now got us addicted to finding more of these - still got plenty to check out over the course of the next few months. The bluebells are very pretty as well, I did see them on our visit but as usual, me and Jake were rushing around and didn't really get time to photograph them as we went Ascott afterwards.

Cheers mate. Yeah I can imagine it was a nice surprise when you walked in to find that. Yeah the pics you showed me of the others you have found are really nice. Hopefully get out this weekend to see them. Yeah I do enjoy seeing my surroundings and not just the explore bit.

 

[HughieD]

That's a belter that mate.

 

[JakeV50]

Beautiful shots!

 

[Mikeymutt]

That's a belter that mate.

Thank you mate, it's such a sweet little one.

 

[Mikeymutt]

Beautiful shots!

Thank you kindly mate.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Loving the close ups with the cobwebs and debris. Lovely set

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Not a bod little pump hs, reminds me of one near Harrington over this way

 

[Mikeymutt]

Loving the close ups with the cobwebs and debris. Lovely set

Thank you. The macro lens is handy for that.

 

[Mikeymutt]

Not a bod little pump hs, reminds me of one near Harrington over this way

Can't think which one that is.

 

[slayaaaa]

Hah the y2k sticker is interesting! I don't recall ever seeing anything like that before. Nice one!

 

[Mikeymutt]

Hah the y2k sticker is interesting! I don't recall ever seeing anything like that before. Nice one!

Yeah I have not either. It's quite fascinating to see how seriously it was all taken though. I almost missed seeing that as well tucked up high.