Staffordshire Potteries Water Works

Staffordshire Potteries Water Works

To cope with the ever increasing demand for pure and wholesome water from its founding days numerous Water Works were built or purchased by the Staffordshire Potteries Water Board.

In the early years these were all steam powered but eventually all were modernised to electrically driven pumps resulting in the steam plant being scrapped.

Several of the Water Works have their own individual page which provides a more in depth history of the Works and can be accessed by following the links below. However the following time line lists the more prominent events in the history of some of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works.

Wall Grange Water Works | Stockton Brook Water Works | Hatton Water Works

Date	Water Works	Event
1849	Wall Grange	First Cornish beam steam pumping engine "Stafford" erected. Manufactured by Messrs. Sandys Vivian, of Hale, Cornwall.
1854	Wall Grange	Second Cornish beam steam pumping engine "Davenport" installed. Manufactured by Messrs. Sandys Vivian, of Hale, Cornwall.
1865	Meir	Cornish beam steam pumping engine "Cromarty" erected.
1882	Meir	Horizontal compound tandem Davey differential steam pumping engine installed.
1884	Stockton Brook	Two horizontal compound tandem Davey differential steam pumping engines installed.
1892	Hatton	Two compound rotary beam steam pumping engines erected.
1898	Hatton	Horizontal cross compound rotary steam pumping engine erected
1907	Hatton	Horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine erected.
1914	Mill Meece	First, left hand, horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine erected. Manufactured by Messrs. Ashton Frost
1927	Mill Meece	Second, right hand, horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine erected. Manufactured by Messrs. Hathorn Davey
1933	Meir	Steam pumping engines dismantled and replaced by two sets of electrically driven plant, each consisting of a well pump and surface pump.
1933	Wall Grange	Steam pumping engines dismantled and replaced by three electrically driven surface pumps.
1936	Stockton Brook	Steam pumping engines dismantled and replaced by two sets of electrically driven plant, each consisting of a vertical spindle well pump and surface pump.
1940	Hatton	Horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine dismantled and replaced with two sets of A.C. electrically driven plant, each consisting of a well pump and surface pump.
1948	Hatton	Submersible well pump installed in the "pilot" well outside the Works pumping in series with a surface pump installed in the tandem pump house.
1979	Mill Meece	Steam pumping engine last pumped water to the supply on 22nd December.
2013	Mill Meece	Boiler House structural issues prevents engines steaming.
2014	Mill Meece	Centenary Year.