Description:Inaugurated in 1880 to extract underground water for the South Staffs Water Works Company, this pumping station stood adjacent the Hednesford to Rugeley Road on land leased from the Marquis of Anglesey. Marquis Drive leading to Wandon is the track leading away to the right of the pumping station. The building housed two single-cylinder, double-acting Cornish beam engines, manufactured at James Watt & Co.'s Soho Works, Birmingham, which were powered by four coal-fired Lancashire steam boilers. The water was pumped to a new reservoir on Rawnsley Hills which is now Hednesford Hills Raceway. The building shown was demolished and the engines scrapped in 1970. Having been electrified in 1955, the scheme was completed with the provision of a new well pump house in 1972.
Notice what appear to be workmen on the corner, with horses and carts, a caravan hut and a man with bicycle.