The Water Tower baggers thread

[Jon George]

Okay, I'm in for this.
This is my first contribution (an absolutely lousy photo, I know, but there are two in shot, with the bonus of a bike-in-front-of-no-parking sign.) I specifically cycled out yesterday to get this photo - on Patsy #3 The Hybrid - just to join in the fun.
Rushmere 1 & 2 Off Tuddenham Lane, North Ipswich.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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We walked past this several times in April, last year, when we stayed in the 'Little Tin Chapel', on Whipcord Lane, opposite Telfords Warehouse
(Shropshire Union Canal)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There's two similar ones that I pass on a semi-regular basis;
1. It's in a triangle created by the villages of Hickleton, Brodsworth & Hooton Pagnell
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/584083
Although 'H-P' is arguably a town, as it was granted a market charter in 1253
(it's also a simply marvellous place, known as The Cotswolds Of The Coal-Fields, as it looks so out of place in South Yorkshire!)

2. Woolley Edge, at the top of 'Haigh Bank'
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2800211
The OS map below the photograph shows the location, with jct 38/'The Old Post Office' to the south

 

[Drago]

Nice work team. It kind brings a pride filled tear to my eye how my trig/renewable energy/water towers baggers threads gets you guys and gals out on your bikes and taking an interest in our heritage.

 

[Salty seadog]

Meppershall water tower in Bedfordshire.

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Brutal

 

[Drago]

I kind of like it. Has a wonderful 50s cold war feel to it.

 

[Salty seadog]

Nice work team. It kind brings a pride filled tear to my eye how my trig/renewable energy/water towers baggers threads gets you guys and gals out on your bikes and taking an interest in our heritage.

Are you sure that tear in your eye isn't a result of you leaving the sugar spoon in your cup of tea?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Brutal

It is isn't it, and I hadn't recognised that fact until I got really close... it looks nicer from afar, it's on a highish ridge and can be seen from about 10 miles away in many directions, I'd just never gone up to it.

 

[DCLane]

All of you have missed a biggie ... literally. Gawthorpe water tower (Ossett), just near where they run the World Coal Carrying Championship that @Drago could do on Easter Monday now he's running again.

And that's the end of my contributions

 

[PapaZita]

My own shot of the Meppershall tower from back in the summer. Apologies, bike not visible, I was sitting on it. Taken on my way home from a ride up to St Neots.

 

[Grant Fondo]

All of you have missed a biggie ... literally. Gawthorpe water tower (Ossett), just near where they run the World Coal Carrying Championship that @Drago could do on Easter Monday now he's running again.

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And that's the end of my contributions

A fine specimen

 

[Grant Fondo]

My own shot of the Meppershall tower from back in the summer. Apologies, bike not visible, I was sitting on it. Taken on my way home from a ride up to St Neots.

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Another interesting one. 1949, so rare for the fact chuff-all was built in the '40s.

 

[Jenkins]

Here's one that's under a mile from me and a local landmark which almost anyone who's been to Felixstowe would have seen - the Trimley Water Tower pictured this afternoon. Apparently the tallest open leg tower at 210ft, and long since out of use having been replaced with underground storage. It should have been pulled down years ago as pieces keep falling off (the netting was a failed attempt to limit the damage), but it seems that the rental received from hosting all the arials exceeds the cost of repairs. There's new housing being built almost up to the base at the moment, so its future may be in doubt.

Another one for @Jon George to hunt down is the partially clad Rushmere St. Andrew water tower (pictured below in 2020), but it took me some time to find the right combination of tracks & paths to get to it

I've also got pictures of towers in Gissing, Kenninghall, Hollesley & Rendlesham from the past few years if you're desperate enough to see them

 

[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!

 

[LucretiaMyReflection]

From yesterday's ride (Norwich to Downham Market), on the way out from Norwich I spotted the Bowthorpe Water Tower. Very unusual - looks more like a grain silo.
Heritage Norfolk