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Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society (Transactions 2010 page 115) report excavations around Ashted Pumping Station…
“It was found that the flight of locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal lost water especially after the Warwick and Birmingham Canal joined it near its terminus in 1796. Therefore the company decided to build a pumping station at Ashted to keep their water in the system (Broadbridge 1974).
The pumping station (SMR no 20646-MBM2300) recirculated water up the flight of six locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal. It pumped from a well connected to the Bottom Pound, the level length of canal between Digbeth and the Ashted locks, and water was delivered along a covered leat into the Hospital Pound, the level length between Snow Hill Bridge and Aston (Fig 2). The plant was commissioned in September 1812 and comprised a Boulton and Watt single-acting, equal-beam steam engine with parallel motion on both ends of the iron beam. The cylinder had a 36-inch bore with a 7-foot stroke and was rated at 24.1 hp at 10 strokes per minute. Latterly it had two Lancashire-type boilers while the pump had a 7-foot stroke, the type and bore being unrecorded…”
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“It was found that the flight of locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal lost water especially after the Warwick and Birmingham Canal joined it near its terminus in 1796. Therefore the company decided to build a pumping station at Ashted to keep their water in the system (Broadbridge 1974).
The pumping station (SMR no 20646-MBM2300) recirculated water up the flight of six locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal. It pumped from a well connected to the Bottom Pound, the level length of canal between Digbeth and the Ashted locks, and water was delivered along a covered leat into the Hospital Pound, the level length between Snow Hill Bridge and Aston (Fig 2). The plant was commissioned in September 1812 and comprised a Boulton and Watt single-acting, equal-beam steam engine with parallel motion on both ends of the iron beam. The cylinder had a 36-inch bore with a 7-foot stroke and was rated at 24.1 hp at 10 strokes per minute. Latterly it had two Lancashire-type boilers while the pump had a 7-foot stroke, the type and bore being unrecorded…”
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