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Another look at the Smethwick New Pumping House from Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick.

Between the Birmingham Canal Navigations new main line (left) and old main line (right).


Smethwick New Pumping House now houses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_Valley_Canal_Heritage_Centre" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre</a>.

It is Grade II listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-219213-smethwick-new-pumping-house-approximatel" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Smethwick New Pumping House Approximately 50 Metres North West of Brasshouse Lane Birmingham Canal , Smethwick</a>

SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL

   SP 0188 NE
   Birmingham Level, Smethwick
   19/14 Smethwick new Pumping House
   approximately 50 metres
   29.12.78
   north-west of Brasshouse Lane
   II
   Pumping house between Smeaton's Old Main Line on the Wolverhampton Level and
   Telford's New Main Line on the Birmingham Level. 1892. Brick with slate roof.
   One storey to Old Main Line and two storeys to New Main Line. Lower storey
   has four-bay blind arcade with impost band, and a smaller doorway within
   right-hand arch. The upper storey has four windows with segmental heads, the
   two right-hand ones blocked, and a drip course. Miniature false machicolation
   to the eaves; adjoining to the left is the ashes hole with a doorway for removing
   the ash. Hipped slate roof in two spans, with louvred ridge ventilators. Right-
   hand return wall of three bays, with blocked windows. North-east wall, facing
   upper level, has two wide elliptical arches with smaller inner segmental arches.
   The right-hand one is blocked, the left-hand one is a doorway. In front of the
   right-hand archway are the foundation walls of the coal hole. Interior: steel
   roof trusses. History: This pumping house replaced two earlier pumping stations
   on the Engine Arm of the Birmingham Canal. It was the last to be erected on
   this section of the canal and housed two vertical compound engines driving
   centrifugal pumps capable of lifting 200 locks per day. In 1905 one engine was
   removed for use at Bentley, the remaining one being in use until the early 1920s.
   The pumphouse is a prominent feature of the canalside landscape.


Listing NGR: SP0192688913
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Source Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick - Smethwick New Pumping House
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 29′ 53.6″ N, 1° 58′ 23.46″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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