British Water Tower Appreciation Society

David Hawkings is not simply a local enthusiast who has produced a book about the Swanage water tower.

BWTAS was formed in 2006.

Essex Industrial Heritage Fair: Saturday, October 5th 2019 Chelmsford Corporation Water Works, now Sandford Mill Chelmsford Corporation purchased the Sandford Mill site (a water powered corn mill) in 1923 for their new waterworks.

BWTAS Committee member, Brian Light, has completed his book on Colchester's massive, iconic water tower, that he started writing, back in 2001.

Another chance for BWTAS members to visit...

BWTAS Update… While this blog has been rather quiet of late, there has been a lot of activity going on in the background… We held our committee meeting in Wenhaston, back in January, to plan the year ahead and following that, a second follow up meeting to…

© Photograph Copyright Wil Harvey When BWTAS Chairman Wil Harvey was visiting the Netherlands, he of course kept his eye open for any interesting water towers.

BWTAS Planning Meeting !

© Photograph Copyright Dr Carmen Wheatley Located at N 49.479359° W 2.528773°, in the top corner of the St Clair vinery1 meadows, on Delancey Hill.

© Photograph Copyright Brian Light The above photograph was sent to me by fellow BWTAS committee member, Brian Light, while on holiday.

© Photograph Copyright Peter Loosely The above picture has the note: "Water tower construction — Nigeria (tower collapsed when filled with water)".

Brian Light, Wil Harvey and Ferrers Young man the BWTAS & BTT stand at Basildon The big news is, at last, there seems to be a bright future for Colchester's "Jumbo" water tower.

The British Water Tower Appreciation Society will have a presence at the Essex Industrial Heritage Fair just South of Basildon, this coming Saturday.

North Norfolk's answer to the Northern Lights… This stunning image was sent in by BWTAS member, Carys O'Brien — Laser lights illuminated Knapton’s landmark water tower with the words "Trunchonbury Festival" (they have a very nice web site).

Mugs Away !

Britain's second water tower to utilise prestressed reinforced concrete!

© Photograph Copyright Martin Tomlinson BWTAS was recently contacted by Martin Tomlinson, who kindly provided information and images of the Lathockar water tower — a tower until then, unknown to BWTAS.

© Copyright Michael Smith and Linda Woodward, reproduced by kind permission of SARA Strabroke Village Archive The above image was taken by the prolific photographer Geoffrey Smith in 1953.

BWTAS was recently contacted by Peter Loosley, who had been photographing water towers since 1976.

Information Request… © Copyright Anthony Parkes and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence The above water tower is a Grade II listed building.

© Photograph Copyright Edmund Silvester BWTAS member, Jennifer Silvester, kindly sent in this photograph of the now converted water tower located at TQ 06019 85191.

It's here !

The British Water Tower Appreciation Society will have a presence at the Industrial Heritage Fair in Braintree, Essex, this coming Saturday.

A chance for members to visit… The water tower was designed in 1897 by Sir Ernest George based on Dutch architecture of the time, it is the only ten sided water tower in Europe and is built of Cawston red brick, made at the Marshall Howard Brick Kiln.

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