Smethwick Engine House site
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Smethwick Engine House site by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Smethwick Engine House site
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 5 Sep 2019
The building provides a shelter for the excavated foundations https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5112880 of the 1779 Boulton and Watt engine which pumped water into the summit level of the Birmingham Canal. The engine itself was removed for preservation in 1897-8 following the building of a new pumping house in 1892. The engine itself is now displayed in the Think Tank in Birmingham. The site is a scheduled monument.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.497729
Longitude
-1.962247