British Water Tower Appreciation Society

It's a really perfect title for a blog . For those unfamiliar with English idioms, 'pork pies' is rhyming slang for 'lies...

It was on the strength of photos of water towers on flickr.com that BWTAS came across this site. Although BWTAS wasn't constituted to be...

Regular correspondent David Blackburn asks if BWTAS activities extend to conduits. Well, some members do take an interest in them. Here are ...

Image Mr RJ Whittick FRPS from Images of England. Date Photographed: October 1999 Leweston Water T...

Some time ago a correspondent sent BWTAS a postcard of a water tower they had picked up on their holidays. They hadn't seen the tower bu...

Image © Tony Wilding for Images of England BWTAS has been asked to remove the contact details for this tower as it is now let to a private t...

BWTAS is British in name but not in its outlook. In the Moorish* town of Tavira in the Algarve, Portugal, there is a delightful camera obscu...

Coddenham, North of Ipswich OS Map ref TM128530 Shrubland Park is one of the finest examples of an Italianate house and garden in Englan...

Orwell Park was once the home of the wealthy Victorian luminary Colonel George Tomline [1812 - 1889]. Tomline was an MP and was elected unop...

Heath, Nr Wakefield, North Yorkshire NMR Number: SE 32 SE 20. For centuries before piped water became generally available there occurred the...