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Missing sketch of the wet pit pump arrangement as originally installed for the turbine condenser cooling water, drawn from memory of the drawing referred to above. The intakes in the river bed were arranged so that water was taken in with the tide, and discharged down flow, the valves allowing change over as the tide ebbed and flowed. This arrangement fell into disuse later, when new intakes were installed upstream in Medway Pumphouse, and the water was sent to the turbine house via a sump under no 1 conveyor, and later partly built over for the electrical dept workshop. I will later post photos of this sump when it was uncovered during the demolition of East Mill.
Referring to drawing Ax130, one of a few I have scans of (too big to post at over 5MB), this shows the circulating water mains for the turbine condensers, with some other detail, notably nos 1 & 2 Lancashire boilers (the two new ones mounted on their beds above), and in the pump pit under the soft water plant in the south end of the boiler house is a Lancashire boiler used as a hot water tank, labelled as having come from Horton Kirby mill, i.e. one of the second hand boilers speculated on in previous posts.
