Drone Footage of Bracebridge Pumping Station, High Hoe Road, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2DR

📍 Bracebridge Pumping Station, High Hoe Road, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2DR
Dominating the local landscape since construction in 1881, the Bracebridge Pumping Station was a fundamental part of Worksop's new sewage system following a cholera epidemic. It utilised two steam-driven, coal fired beam engines to pump sewage to the effluent processing facility at 400,000 gallons every 12 hours.
Like many Victorian pumping stations it was designed in an Italian Romanesque style, which included ornate cast-iron columns and a spiral staircase. The plant eventually shut with the building of a new sewage treatment works at Kilton. All that remains is the empty pumping house, the boiler house chimney and a couple of treatment tanks. The boiler house itself was demolished sometime after 1970.
Now Grade II listed and boasting a new roof, planning permission was granted in 2006 to convert the structure into 24 residential apartments, but as of today, work into this project does not appear to have begun.