Description:Moors Gorse Waterworks are mid-way between Hednesford (to the right) and Rugeley. The track crossing the road is Marquis Drives heading towards Wandon. This view was taken from what would later be known as Kit Bag Hill which would lead to R.A.F. Hednesford. A 'Mock Tudor' cottage can just be seen behind the waterworks.
Moors Gorse Pumping Station was built between 1875 and 1879 by William Trowe and Son of Wednesbury for the South Staffordshire Water Company on land leased from the Marquis of Anglesey at a perpetual rent of £300 per annum. In front of the main building are two James Watt supplied, steam-operated 'Cornish' beam pumping engines from 1877.
Below the building was an 16 feet (4.88m.) diameter red brick-lined well 140 feet (42.67m.) deep, which had two bore holes at its bottom. From near the bottom of the well, a heading sloped away from the road, rising to access the coal seams worked by Cannock Wood Colliery, water from which then supplied the well for the South Staffordshire water system, which in turn supplied both industry and the local population.
The building was demolished down in 1970 and the Company installed a new electrically powered pumping station on the same site, commissioned in 1972.