The Water Tower baggers thread

[Willd]

Edgehill

 

[Jenkins]

Freston water tower

 

[PeteXXX]

Hardingstone water tower, also, as many are, on the trigpointing database.. 👍

 

[biggs682]

Dingley water tower

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 18th

Pontefract Park
Just to the south of the grandstand, for the racecourse

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/258524

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This is from our Awesome utopia village.

@Milzy
The 'A', or the 'U' village?

Bike in front of one water tower?

Pah.

Take my bike in front of a church and TWO watertowers!

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Rockwell Green in Somerset

Ahh, you ride a 'Digestive' too

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Has anyone else been watching the 'Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis' series?
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/huge-homes-with-hugh-dennis

In episode one, he visited a converted water tower

http://www.elspethbeardarchitects.com/projects/munsteadwatertower.html
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/refurbished-water-tower-stars-tv-6169109

Her project list, looks like she might have designed others?


It seems to have featured quite a lot in publications; http://www.elspethbeardarchitects.com/publications/index.html

 

[All uphill]

The 'A', or the 'U' village?

Ahh, you ride a 'Digestive' too

I do!

Very happy with it.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 9th

This afternoon, we drove past the Water-Tower, between Flockton & Midgely, near the entrance to HMP New Hall, whilst 'out & about' (x 14)

It's been converted into a dwelling, with a glass lower-floor!!!
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/96012
Sadly traffic precluded a stop, I will try to return though!

There is a video of it on FB, but I'm not sure of the uploaders settings, to allow people to see it
You may/may not see it;


View: https://www.facebook.com/100011264261777/videos/1290989905073068



If not, try one of the local newspapers; https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news.../first-look-inside-landmark-flockton-25732509

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 5th

(seen from Beech Park Close)
Main Street ( which was the A19, before the bypass, which is on the alignment of the -redirected- East Coast Main Line)
Riccall
North Yorkshire

 

[DCLane]

Riccall, Yorkshire:

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@DCLane
Yours is mine, from the other side

 

[DCLane]

@Richard A Thackeray - it's a pretty brutalist piece of architecture.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Richard A Thackeray - it's a pretty brutalist piece of architecture.

@DCLane
My daughter was with me, when we passed it again, last Thursday (when I took these 4 images)
She reckons it looks like an alien ship, she had a point, there's the Terraforming machine in (the Superman/Henry Cavill film) 'Man Of Steel'

 

[Datum2]

One from the files, Milton Ernest/ Thurleigh water tower. Built in 1935-36. weighs 2000 tons and was moved 300 feet in 1952 by the use of ball bearings, a Caterpillar or two to pull it and a lot of faith. The Contractor was J L Kier & Co.
A short you-tube of the water tower move
I was cycling when I took this photo 13 years ago but hadn't realised that "your bike in front of......" would be a thing,
Edit - Photos on next post