The steam farm building houses a collection of barn machinery driven by a steam engine.
A great day out - kids loved it, thanks.
Woodford Family, Southampton
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Horizontal steam engine used to drive the machinery
The barn housing the farm machinery
The whole range of machinery required to prepare feed stuffs for animals on a large farm is represented in the farm buildings. Driven by line-shafting, power is from a Robinson horizontal steam engine, built at Rochdale in Lancashire over 100 years ago and used to drive the well pump at Basing House for many years
Steam is provided by a vertical boiler which has sadly been recently condemned, so we are looking for a replacement.