Bressingham Hall Steam Museum
The result of a lifetimes work by the redoubtable Alan Bloom and his team, Bressingham is well known for its preserved narrow and standard gauge locomotives, the short standard gauge track is fun and the extensive narrow gauge lines are an excellent way to see the Nurseries which co exist with the museum.
Traction engines, a working set of 3 abreast steam driven Tidman gallopers, fire engines and other memorabilia are here to be enjoyed.
Bressingham also has a small collection of stationary steam engines which are regularly steamed from a Cochrane vertical boiler.
A small Easton and Anderson A frame beam engine of about 1870, which used to pump water for Banstead Hospital has been well restored and is steamed regularly.
A 1902 Sir William Arrol cross compound hydraulic pumping engine from Chivers jam factory at Histon is also frequently steamed, this engine worked while the site was demolished providing power for hydraulic lifts around the site, it continued to work as the power house was demolished around it and finished it's time in the open air.
There are two horizontal single cylinder Marshall MP class engines of around 50 and 25 HP.
A large horizontal of around 100 HP from Wards sawmills in Boxmoor by Guest and Craven is restored but does not appear to be run very often.
A fixed fire pump by Shand Mason from Sir J J Colmans Whitlingham home is in the fire section, as is a portable Merryweather fire pump.
Feedpumps an enclosed Bellis and Morcom compound and a sectioned boiler from the Tidman centre engine add interest as does a Lancashire boiler front which is mounted for 'cosmetic' display.
Open most of the time Bressingham is a day out anyone would enjoy.
Telephone 01379 687386