British Water Tower Appreciation Society

30th Street, between 7th and 8th, 2012. During the morning rush hour in New York City, tourists stand out as being the ones looking up. ...

The recollections of an  itinerant  family of 'tankies' and their 284 water tower career in the postwar era. download fro...

Painting No. 130, Water Tower Stewart Indian School , Carson City, Nevada 8"x 8", oil on linen panel September 1, 2011 Standi...

In 1915, when its population was about 1600, the city of Cotton Plant Arkansas USA was the birthplace of one of the greatest ever Americans...

Western Springs  is a suburb of  Chicago  located in  Cook County, Illinois , USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total populat...

BWTAS member, David Blackburn, has sent in these photographs of the water tower on the Alcatraz Island, taken from a tourist boat by a frien...

Here at BWTAS we're somewhat mystified as to why, perhaps someone will explain, but we came across this neat film of crochet artist ...

It is well understood by many members of BWTAS and the vistors to our art exhibitions that water towers are inspirational objects for artis...

Washington Post - United States Once home to a rebel of the du Pont family, Nemours Mansion and Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware has reopened...

It seems appropriate on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings to bring you this story: Retired US Marine Howard Flexor moved to Dudley,...

It may be only 50,000 gallons and made of rusted metal but it has an unusual double tank design. The 1904 Rio Vista water tower on the Calif...

If you like getting high, the city of St. Louis is blessed with many places to do it. There's the Gateway Arch and the corinithan standp...

The historic Imperial Tobacco plant water tower in Greenville South Carolina USA has been pulled down after standing for 72 years. The tower...

With an undeniable hold on popular imagination and inaccessibility adding an air of mystery to their purpose, it was only a matter of time b...

John Robinette is a Memphis artist who has been described as a painter of only three things: shacks, churches, and water towers. He is widel...

From the New York Times Hernando Mississippi (near Memphis TN) is seeking landmark status for its ordinary metal water tower. Given the slo...

Melissa Pionzio , a journalist and blogger for the Hartford Courant in Conneticut USA, has reported the demolition of the Gong Bell water...