Street. Tours of the site can be arranged through the Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre which is based in the New Smethwick Pumping Station and regularly opened by Sandwell Museum Service and The Friends of Galton Valley. The pumping station was featured in an episode of The Water Boatman presented by Alan Herd on the Discovery Shed TV channel in November 2011. Points of interest See also Canals of the United Kingdom History of the British canal system Old Bess (beam engine) – the oldest surviving Watt steam engine References Birmingham's Canals, Ray Shill, 1999, 2002, External links Model of the Smethwick Engine The Smethwick Engine at Thinktank, Birmingham science museum Preserved beam engines Transport in Sandwell Birmingham Canal Navigations Engine Collection of Thinktank, Birmingham 1779 in England 1779 in science History of the steam engine Industrial Revolution James Watt