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Historic Water Supply

Visit The Waterworks Museum during the Easter Bank Holiday in April for our Historic Water Supply – Leominster.

This year our historic water supplies exhibition focuses on Leominster and will tell the fascinating story of the history of water supply in Leominster. Its water pumping station was built in 1865 after a typhoid outbreak that killed 38 people. 30 years ago, the water pumping station was saved from demolition and rebuilt by volunteers at the Waterworks
Museum (now known as our ‘Tangye House’).

Open day in steam: Whatever your reasons for visiting the Waterworks Museum – Hereford, there is so much more to see than just big engines and industrial heritage.

Whatever the weather, we have something to offer all visitors including family groups with children.

The Waterworks Museum traces the history of drinking water from the cave-dwellers up to the present day through wonderful working engines, superb display panels, guidebooks and films and the knowledge shared by the Museum’s volunteers. Classified by English Heritage as “a site of clear national importance”, the Museum is home to the oldest working triple-expansion steam engine in the UK and probably has the widest range of working pumps and engines.

The Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park is unique in the UK and is aimed primarily at young people but ALL visitors are encouraged to enter and have a go with the historic water devices. Here visitors can interact with full-size devices for lifting, pumping, moving and filtering water which have been used down the generations. In a totally safe environment children can have immense fun and learn at the same time the difficulties of obtaining water in days gone by.

Free admission for:
Visiting public under the age of 16
Members of the Waterworks Museum.
Members of the Museums Association (cards to be shown).
Visitors bearing complimentary admission cards (cards to be given up).
Coach drivers/couriers (plus free tea/coffee).

Refreshments
Tea, coffee, soft drinks and snacks are always available.

Admission of dogs
Museum policy is that dogs may be admitted to the Museum grounds on a leash, but for the safety of other visitors this is always at the discretion of Museum staff. Dogs are not permitted in the Museum buildings or the Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park (with the exception of Assistance Dogs).