The Two Towers on Waterworks Road that may have inspired the second Lord of the Rings book by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Severn Trent Water are based down here in Edgbaston.

Further down Waterworks Road is the Waterworks Tower within a Severn Trent facility.

This is the Edgbaston Waterworks Tower inside Severn Trent Water Edgbaston.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgbaston_Waterworks" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Edgbaston Waterworks</a>

Edgbaston Waterworks (Edgbaston Pumping Station) (grid reference SP0455386465) lies to the east of Edgbaston Reservoir, two miles west of the centre of Birmingham, England.

The buildings were designed by John Henry Chamberlain and William Martin around 1870. The engine house, boiler house, and chimney are Grade II listed buildings. The site is operated by Severn Trent Water. Despite the close proximity to Edgbaston Reservoir there is no current or historical connection of the water. This waterworks manages domestic water supply whereas the reservoir was built to feed the canal system.

It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-217751-pumphouse-and-attached-storeroom-standby" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Pumphouse and Attached Storeroom, Standby Generator Room and Ornamented Chimney Stack at Edgbaston P, Birmingham - British Listed Buildings</a>

WATERWORKS ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B16 Pumphouse and attached storeroom, standby generator room and ornamented chimney stack at Edgbaston Pumping Station SP 0488 SE 36/17 17.8.79 II 2. C1870, by J H Chamberlain and W Martin. Polychrome brick; slate roof. Pumphouse. Tall gabled building with 3 tall lancet windows and 4 trefoiled and gabled windows in the roof. The entrance up steps and flanked by buttresses. Above, in the gable, a roundel in a lancet head. Attached and to the right are 3 lower gabled buildings, 2 of them now used as storerooms and the third as a standby generator room. Their forebuildings all demolished and the exposed walls now painted At the rear of the standby generator room stands the ornamented chimney stack. Square in plan and with some Doric dressings. First stage with broad lancets; second stage with 2 light Decorated style windows; third stage with single lancets with a band of quatrefoils over; fourth stage with coupled Decorated style windows; there a bracketed balcony with iron railings and an octagonal turret with lancets in