Edgbaston Waterworks
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Edgbaston Waterworks by A J Paxton as part of the Geograph project.
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Edgbaston Waterworks
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 21 Mar 2022
The water pumping station at Edgbaston was built by Birmingham Corporation in 1862 to designs by John Henry Chamberlain. The chimney resembles a campanile or bell tower in Italian gothic style; it can be seen rising above the roofs of the waterworks building in this photo, and it is a listed building, described at the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343154?section=official-list-entry . The building in the foreground is not included in the listing. Its distinctive modernist style suggests a date in the 1920s or 1930s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.475062
Longitude
-1.932969