British Water Tower Appreciation Society

The only British society dedicated to water tower culture and history. "Onwards and Upwards"

Thursday, 26 April 2012

Tiger Hunt in Harrogate

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/muddy-landrover/5248501927/  Tiger Aspect, producers of Channel 4 television's Restoration Man   are l...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Settle Station Water Tower Restoration Complete !

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The tower taken in today's winter sunshine The subject of "Restoration Man", Channel 4, 9pm Thursday, 16 th February Mark ...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Amlwch, Anglesea, Wales (1953)

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image courtesy of David Blackburn The third of a trio of idustrial water towers is this 100,000 gallon tower, built in 1953 as part of...
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Monday, 30 January 2012

Garrett’s, Leiston, Suffolk (c. 1850)

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This water tower, we are told, was built in the 1850's to provide water for the various chemical treatments involved in the steam boiler...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Bowling Green Mills, Bingley, West Yorkshire (1871)

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BWTAS member, David Blackburn, sent us the above photograph, of an industrial water tower, as we don’t feature many of these. To rectify thi...
Friday, 27 January 2012

Soup Tower chairman reflects on icon of Kings Lynn

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Lynn: Tower loss is a blasted waste CAMPBELL'S SOUPS TOWER A trip down memory lane Raymond Monbiot sifts through photographic m...
Thursday, 22 December 2011

New application for conversion of Aldeburgh Park Road water tower

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Suffolk Coastal District Council have posted notices that two new applications C/11/2792 and C/11/2991 have been received for conversion o...

William Bruff - water tower engineer

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From http://apps3.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/planningonlinedocuments/125670_6.pdf and other sources: William Fontaine Golding Bruff (elected as...
Friday, 2 December 2011

China's water history

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BWTAS recently received enquiries about images of Shanghai's metal water tower that we have covered in this journal and so were inform...
Saturday, 12 November 2011

Blow me down: a chance to demolish iconic water tower

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The final chapter of the saga of the water tower at the former Campbell's soup factory will be written in the local newspaper. The Lyn...
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