Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Volume 44 2009
CANWICK HALL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
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Canwick Hall, 2 miles south of Lincoln, home of the Sibthorp family. A small sewerage system, made by W E Farrer of Birmingham, was installed here in c1900.
Left: Measured drawing of the sewerage plant following the survey by SLHA members in 2010.
Right: A contemporary textbook illustration of Farrer's plant.
Left: View of the plant with the cess pool tanks to the left and the filter bed to the right.
Right: The SLHA team investigating the filter bed. Several of the glazed pipes which provided air to the base of the bed can be seen.
Far Left: Manhole cover to cess pool tank, with Farrer's name.
Centre and Right: Interior of cess pool tank showing inlet T-pipe from above and from the side.
Left: Broken outlet pipe from cess pool tank. This discharged into a trough balanced on rockers to alternate flow of effluent between sides of filter bed.
Right: Details of tipper mechanism.
Fragment of perforated interlocking tile from base of filter bed. This shows the underside of the tile; the protuberance to the top left was one of the "legs" to raise the tile off the floor of the bed.
The outlet for treated effluent at the base of the filter bed was controlled by a pivoted circular plate on the end of a long vertical rod.
Left: Manhole cover for soakaway, constructed by C R Lucas, a Lincoln builder.
Right: Interior of the soakaway. This was probably a later addition to the system to deal with overflow from the filter bed.
Photographs by Chris Lester, Ken Redmore and Stewart Squires. Drawing by Ken Redmore
