Tuesday, 22 May 2012

The Water Tank Project

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Word Above the Street is staging a large scale public art initiative to draw attention to water as a precious resource by transforming 3...
Friday, 18 May 2012

Eins, Zwei, Dry...

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Kerry and Chris Hones are a British couple who possess a trio of extraordinary water towers situated in Nennig on the border of Luxembou...

Túir uisce na hÉireann*

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Water Towers of Ireland has been around since June 2010. Its curator/artist Jamie Young has regularly corresponded with BWTAS and says...
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...