A camera club photographer took picturess of The British Engineerium at the weekend when it was open to the public after nearly 20 years.

This weekend Paper Daisy’s Winter Makers’ Fair became the first public event to be held at the Grade II listed building in Hove since becoming a Lifestyle and Wellbeing Centre run by The Happy Campus.

Visitors had the opportunity to take a stroll around the museum to see all its mechanical antiquities held within the boiler room and engine rooms during a visit to The Winter Makers Fair, for a day combining art and history.

The British Engineerium, formerly known as Brighton and Hove Engineerium, is an engineering and steam power museum in Hove.

It is housed in the Goldstone Pumping Station, a set of high Victorian gothic buildings dating back to 1866. The Goldstone Pumping Station supplied water to the local area for more than a century before it was converted to its present use.

The former boiler and engine House, and the chimney at the engineerium are both Grade II listed buildings.

Between 1884 and 1952, the complex consisted of two boiler houses with condensing engines, a chimney, coal cellars, workshop, cooling pond, leat, and an underground reservoir.

As new sources of water were found elsewhere and more modern equipment installed to exploit them, the pumping station's importance declined, and by 1971 the Brighton Water Department had closed it down.