CBN 042 - Museum of Power Traditional Cache

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Erz-n-Myn: Thank you to all who enjoyed these walks.

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Hidden : 1/7/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation Series

This cache was part of the old Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation series. Placed with the kind permission of Essex Waterways, please refer to the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation (GC37P3P) cache for more information on this walk along the canal.

The Museum of Power is located in the former Southend Waterworks Langford Pumping Station. Langford Pumping Station was built by T and C Hawksley in 1927, and opened in 1929. It continued pumping fresh (treated) water using steam engines until 1963, when electric pumps took over. It is designed to extract water from the Rivers Chelmer, Ter and Blackwater, the three inflows merge in a small settling reservoir, where sediment is naturally deposited, and then pumped for treatment, and again to a storage reservoir. Two of the three engines and the boilers and coaling plant were scrapped in 1964, and the octagonal chimney was demolished.

One engine and pump set has been preserved. The engine, built by the Lilleshall Company of Oakengates in Shropshire, is a triple-expansion steam engine built in 1927 and numbered 282. The pump house buildings and the remaining engine were declared Scheduled Ancient Monuments in 1986.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

I bs vil pbirerq gerr ol srapr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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