Edgbaston Waterworks Tower - Waterworks Road, Edgbaston : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Edgbaston Waterworks Tower - Waterworks Road, Edgbaston / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The Two Towers on Waterworks Road that may have inspired the second Lord of the Rings book by J. R. R. Tolkien.Severn Trent Water are based down here in Edgbaston.Further down Waterworks Road is the Waterworks Tower within a Severn Trent facility.This is the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower inside Severn Trent Water Edgbaston.Edgbaston WaterworksEdgbaston Waterworks (Edgbaston Pumping Station) (grid reference SP0455386465) lies to the east of Edgbaston Reservoir, two miles west of the centre of Birmingham, England.The buildings were designed by John Henry Chamberlain and William Martin around 1870. The engine house, boiler house, and chimney are Grade II listed buildings. The site is operated by Severn Trent Water. Despite the close proximity to Edgbaston Reservoir there is no current or historical connection of the water. This waterworks manages domestic water supply whereas the reservoir was built to feed the canal system.It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.Pumphouse and Attached Storeroom, Standby Generator Room and Ornamented Chimney Stack at Edgbaston P, Birmingham - British Listed BuildingsWATERWORKS ROAD1.5104Edgbaston B16Pumphouse and attachedstoreroom, standbygenerator room andornamented chimney stackat Edgbaston PumpingStationSP 0488 SE 36/17 17.8.79II2.C1870, by J H Chamberlain and W Martin. Polychrome brick; slate roof. Pumphouse.Tall gabled building with 3 tall lancet windows and 4 trefoiled and gabled windowsin the roof. The entrance up steps and flanked by buttresses. Above, in thegable, a roundel in a lancet head. Attached and to the right are 3 lower gabledbuildings, 2 of them now used as storerooms and the third as a standby generatorroom. Their forebuildings all demolished and the exposed walls now painted Atthe rear of the standby generator room stands the ornamented chimney stack. Squarein plan and with some Doric dressings. First stage with broad lancets; secondstage with 2 light Decorated style windows; third stage with single lancets with aband of quatrefoils over; fourth stage with coupled Decorated style windows; therea bracketed balcony with iron railings and an octagonal turret with lancets inthe sites and a truncated spire on top. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-06-24 09:39:13 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/180) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |