Crafting an Antique Water Hand Pump from Scratch Posted: February 2, 2025 | Last updated: March 9, 2025 Learn how to create a functional and vintage-inspired water hand pump with this DIY guide ...

Some automotive parts require replacement more often than others, not necessarily because of bad design but because they live a hard life. In many decades of wrenching, I've never had to replace a ...

However, if electricity should go out during a storm or other event, the electric water pump won’t work, and the homeowner can fall back on the handpump. Collecting antique water pumps is a ...

The pump was decommissioned after the water scheme started in the village in the late 1960s. In 1988 and 1989, local children had restored the area around the pump and had it painted.

Somewhere along the line, the notion of the public space as worthy of careful design and implicit respect for the passerby has died A vintage water-pump, although it is without function ...

YET ANOTHER piece of local heritage has disappeared with the theft last week of the antique water pump in Ballymoney village.The old iron pump, which had been a feature of the village for an ...