Cobb's Engine House
Between Windmill End Junction and the tunnel portal stands Cobb's Engine House, built in 1831 to pump water from coal mines into the canal.
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“There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
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