on the topic of chimneys

[WDIK]

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• WDIK
• 4 Nov 2009
• 2

can anyone tell me where, what this is, and how is it significant

 

[Nige F]

It`s one of them " yodelling towers " on a mosque . Dunno what the proper name is

 

[WDIK]

no its a chimney of major significance, clue in the midlands, I only discovered having worked there for several days

 

[Homesafe]

a minaret!!

 

[wotan]

Chimney for a pumping engine to keep grand union canal topped up.

Wotan

 

[WDIK]

Chimney for a pumping engine to keep grand union canal topped up.

Wotan

actually its at a waterworks

 

[WDIK]

it was featured as part of a £61.6m profit venture

 

[WDIK]

ok its in birmingham

 

[TheOriginalTonkaToy]

Edgbaston waterworks. It was the inspiration for one of the two towers in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

 

[WDIK]

it certainly was

and the other?>

 

[TheOriginalTonkaToy]

It was a folly if I remember correctly.

 

[WDIK]

indeed just down the road

its partner