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Description: | A double-beamed pumping engine on an arm of James Brindley's Main Line Canal, at Deepfields. It was built with a 600 foot well shaft to maintain canal levels, and to drain the local colliery workings (possibly Ladymoor Colliery). The square-shaped chimney stacks (as opposed to round) are typical of the Black Country region. The engine is known to have been erected prior to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, and possibly dates back to when the canal was built in the late 1700s. The surplus water was drained away via a large overflow that went under the canal and into nearby Ladymoor Brook. The presence of pit gear suggests that coal used for the engine boilers may have been mined on site. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Photograph Steam engines Photographs | Temporal: | [Early 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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