British Water Tower Appreciation Society

Croydon's water tower has its own twitter page! It's very funny. This is another example of the symbolic power of a water tower in a...

The Water Tower Andrew Motion The ...

Perhaps the most important and influential figure in water towers (and in Civil Engineering in general) was the incredibly prolific Louis Gu...

Gawthorpe Water Tower dominates the skyline and can be seen for miles around. It is located at the highest point of the Ossett-cum-Gawthorpe...

It's been a while since BWTAS heard from the architect Stephen Luxford. When Southern Water unloaded a portfolio of properties in 2004, ...

...is an American sculptor who interprets the work of photographers and makes models of their subjects and rephotographs them. He was inspir...

Another informative local history site: The history of Broadstone Water Tower is rooted in the latter half of the 19th century, ...

It's quite rare to find a comprehensive history of a now demolished water tower so we are grateful to Stanton on the Wolds Parish Counci...

It seems that it is no longer on the original site but here is a drawing of a water tower that you can download (click on image) and colour ...

Text collated from various sources. Up to the late 19th Century the principal source of water supply in Shanghai had been the Whangp...