Here’s a picture of an old hand-operated pump still in use in the village of Tongue (then in Sutherland, now Highland, and just about as far north as you can go on mainland Britain) in 1989.

That’s me at the ready, but just posing.
Keep up the good work.
Eric Dale,
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