As you speed out of Northampton on the Bedford Road, you may notice this ornate but friendly chimney on your right.
My current favourite book - A Guide to the Industrial Heritage of Northamptonshire - reveals that it is all that remains of an engine house built to accommodate a 12-horsepower steam engine in 1863. This toiled to improve the town's sewage disposal system until a new works opened at Billing in 1875.
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