British Water Tower Appreciation Society

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

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Ormskirk's Water Towers

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A report by Edward J McCarthy: Ormskirk in West Lancs currently has 3 water towers left but has had others in the past. The majority were b...
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Saturday, 10 November 2012

Parish Pumps

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With apologies to the publishers should they or their heirs still be trading, here is an article scanned from the 1965 East Anglian and ...
Monday, 15 October 2012

Newton le Willows, Merseyside (1904-1979)

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Newton le Willows was the world's largest water tower at its construction in 1904 and the second water tower in the UK to be built from...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

BWTAS AGM report

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photo: Brian Light Eighteen or so souls came to the BWTAS 2012 annual general meeting at 7:30 pm on Monday 24th September 2012 at the C...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

AGM & Virtual tour of North Norfolk's water towers

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BWTAS' next meeting will be held in Norwich , in the "Stanley Cooper Hall" at the Charing Cross Centre , 17-19 St. John Ma...
Friday, 15 June 2012

Brooklyn sculpture is fantastic plastic water tower

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image from Junk Culture The BBC reports a Brooklyn-based artist Tom Fruin has used 1,000 pieces of transparent plastic scavenged from...
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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Castlethorpe Troughs Water Tower

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There's a nice detailed site on the railway at Castlethorpe and the Wolverton Works near Milton Keynes.  http://www.mkheritage.co.u...
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Saturday, 2 June 2012

They didn't just grow there

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The recollections of an  itinerant  family of 'tankies' and their 284 water tower career in the postwar era. download fro...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

BWTAS Elveden Visit

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A lucky few BWTAS members mustered outside the estate manager's office on Wednesday 12th October 2011 for a rare opportuni...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Ten Famous Belgians

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There's a British pub-quiz perennial: name ten famous Belgians. Of course you lose a point if you name the fictional Hercule P...
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