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1879 Moved to Southtown Ironworks
1879 Moved to Southtown Ironworks


1880 Engine installed at Reedham Pumping Station
Made a vertical single cylinder steam engine for pumping creosote at Stanton Timber Mill, King’s Lynn<ref> ‘Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 9‘ by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd</ref>


Premises were eventually taken over by [[Crabtree (1931)]]
1880 R. Barnes made a horizontal steam pumping engine for Reedham Marsh pump house, Norfolk.<ref> [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1928030] Recent photo of pumping station, with description</ref>


1900 Premises were taken over by [[Crabtree and Sons|Crabtree (1931)]]
Note: RICHARD Barnes of Southtown Ironworks, Yarmouth, was advertising steam engines and boilers and capstans in 1879 <ref> Yarmouth Independent - Saturday 27 December 1879 </ref>




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Latest revision as of 21:09, 18 April 2020

of Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth

1865 The company was already established by this date

1879 Moved to Southtown Ironworks

Made a vertical single cylinder steam engine for pumping creosote at Stanton Timber Mill, King’s Lynn[1]

1880 R. Barnes made a horizontal steam pumping engine for Reedham Marsh pump house, Norfolk.[2]

1900 Premises were taken over by Crabtree (1931)

Note: RICHARD Barnes of Southtown Ironworks, Yarmouth, was advertising steam engines and boilers and capstans in 1879 [3]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ‘Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 9‘ by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
  2. [1] Recent photo of pumping station, with description
  3. Yarmouth Independent - Saturday 27 December 1879
  • Steam Engine Builders of Norfolk by Ronald H. Clark. Published 1948 by The Augustine Steward Press
  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10