Description:Built 1879 to supply mains water to Tamworth. Disused since 1962. It was converted into residences in 2005.
'Spruce' is one of two 50HP 'housebuilt' single cylinder, condensing, rotative water pumping beam engines and was donated to Forncett Museum in Norfolk by the South Staffordshire Water Company. The other, 'Woody', went to Leicester (where these engines were built by Gimson and Co. in 1879) and is now steaming at the Snibston Discovery Park. They were named after local Water Company dignitaries in the fashion of the time.