Engine house or Pump house at Hawkesbury Junction -Sutton Stop Situated on the Coventry canal 5 miles from
The engine or pump house is perhaps the most unusual and interesting of all the buildings in the conservation area, both historically and architecturally. The lean-to at the rear is the oldest part and housed the first engine to be installed in 1821. This was a Newcomen type engine which had already seen around one hundred years' service at one of the local collieries. It was named "Lady Godiva" and used to raise water into the canal from a stream flowing underneath. By 1837, however, this supply proved inadequate, a 114 foot shaft was sunk and a new, more powerful engine installed alongside "Lady Godiva" in the handsome three-storey building which now fronts the canal. In 1913 this water supply failed due to the sinking of the new Coventry Colliery and the engine house fell into disuse. The newer engine was scrapped during the Second World War. "Lady Godiva" remained in place until 1963 when it was moved to Dartmouth, the birthplace of Thomas Newcomen, as the centrepiece of a memorial museum.
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