These pictures where sent to us by Becky wood she says:

Hi,

I wonder if you have ever heard anything about Clay Mills Pumping station, we
went to the recent steam up bang took some photos, two very similar ones, on one
there appears to be a face that looks to me like the face of a boy but this does
not appear on the second photo, I was just wondering if you knew of any
reasoning behind this or possible haunting's.

 

We sent the photo to the west midlands ghost club for analysis and this was there reply

 

I must admit that the pictures were quite impressive. I have to say
that they look very much like that they're just a case of simulacrum,
but, as such, the face was well defined. I got the impression of a 40's
/ 50's style woman - a sort of 'land girls' type face........

 

So what is the history of the pumping station to give us clues of who the face may be?. Below is a brief history of the early days of the station which give us a good background to what may be going o

 

Sewage Farm

The town of Burton upon Trent had a more acute problem of sewage disposal in the mid 1800's

than any other town or city in Britain, due to the large number of breweries situated in the area.

The brewing processes generated a large quantity of foul smelling, high temperature, sulphate

rich effluent which also contained a lot of suspended matter. This was all discharged into local

brooks and streams, which became open sewers, until eventually the crude sewage ran into the

River Trent at an outfall at Wallsitch.

Clearly something had to be done about the situation and in 1866 a sewer was built to take the

effluent to an area called Claymills, on the outskirts of the town, where sedimentation tanks

were constructed. The sewage was allowed to settle in the tanks, before being discharged into

the River Trent. The only effect of this was to transfer the site of the sewage problem - not

surprisingly the situation grew worse and it was obvious that further action would be required.

It was decided to build a pumping station on the site of the sedimentation tanks to pump the

effluent some 2¼ miles to a sewage farm which would be built to deal with the sewage.

The Burton on Trent Corporation obtained an act of Parliament in 1880 allowing them to

execute these works.

The sewage farm, located at Egginton & Etwall, at an elevation of 70 feet above the pumps

at Claymills was laid out over 300 acres in 1884 and was fully operational by 1886.

However, almost immediately there were complaints about the stench coming from the farm,

so lime was added to the effluent both at Claymills and at the farm to reduce the problem.

 

 

 

 

The next set of pictures where kindly given to us by sheila walsh when she attended one of our events at

coors museum of brewing prior to the ghost walk taking place we did our usual preparatation of having a

psychic walk take place before we opened it to the general public. On the psychic walk the psychic felt the

energy of a lady present from the chair is this the white on the picture?.

The picture below is from the same bar in the museum is this a light anomolies

or spiritual energy?.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was taken by shaun in the coors upper
level country pub. standing with his back to the fire looking towards the corner
across from the door.No one was taking pictures as they were asked at the
time and the whole area was in complete darkness what is that light or orb?

 

 

The picture may be a bit dark on the web site but it was taken by IGP paranornal at sinai

just in from the left hand side of the white there is a figure of a ghost ?

 

 

 

 

chris@burtonghostandhistorywalk.co.uk