There's a British pub-quiz perennial: name ten famous Belgians. Of course you lose a point if you name the fictional Hercule Poirot. What isn't fictional is that the tiny plucky country dispensed with government for over year and nobody revolted so evidently it is a very civilised place. It also has a wealth of water tower culture, something BWTAS posits is not unrelated.
Charleroi, Belgium 11/25/1990
Id: BW-6090-7-25.11.1990
Id: BW-6090-7-25.11.1990
Gallery of more Belgian industrial water towers
Chateau d’eau is a remarkable home made from a reclaimed water tower in the small town of Steenokkerzeel.
Read more: Water Tower Transformed Into Minimalist Modern Home.
The water tower below is in Tienen in the Flemish part of Belgium and is by Architect Ortwin Deroo. It's 46 meters high with a viewing platform.
However, Mrs Benjamin of Suffolk sent BWTAS this week an image taken on her Eurostar city break to Bruge. It's located at 51.080935,3.114796
Mrs Benjamin wrote: Deze is voor je – de watertoren van Tourhout. De waterbedriif is Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening.
(This is for you, the water tower of Tourhout. The water company is VMW)
Interestingly, this tower doesn't appear in the previous galleries so it seems there must be plenty of water towers in Belgium left to document. Happy hunting!
With a lack of information about Tourhout water towers, the only notable thing we found about Tourhout is that it produced Sylvie De Caluwe. OK, we were kind of distracted from searching much further but we hope she will one day earn a place on a list of very famous Belgians.
Score a point if you said:
Audrey Hepburn
Eddy Merckx
Adolphe Sax
Herge (George Remi)
Plastic Bertrand
Peter Paul Rubens
Rene Magritte
Leo Baekeland
Liz Claiborne
That's only nine? Oh, poor Belgium but we British think your water towers are more than enough compensation.
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