| Next to the canal alongside George Rose Park stood
Herberts Park pumping station, which will be remembered by
many people. It was owned by the South Staffordshire Mines
Drainage Commission, and built to pump water out of the Herberts Park
Colliery into the canal.
In 1914 it became the property of the Birmingham Canal
Navigations after an Act of Parliament was passed to allow
the mines drainage commission to sell four pumping stations,
one in Tipton, one in Bradley, another in Wolverhampton, and
this one at Herberts Park.
After many years of use it fell into dereliction, and was
eventually demolished. The following photographs record the
demolition of the chimney stack by a team of explosive
experts from the army. By this time the building was just an
empty shell. The boiler and steam pumping engine had already
been removed. |
