The Water Tower baggers thread

[wiggydiggy]

Middleton Leeds. Don't go this way very often, was trying a new way into Beeston so I could avoid the awful Dewsbury Road.

 

[youngoldbloke]

This excellent thread reminds me of the work of my favourite artist/photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher Water Towers - fellow enthusiasts check it out!

 

[HLaB]

I don't know if you can call this bagged. It's the Water tower at Thrapston; it was quite clear by eye but less so with my camera.

This one at Denford Ash is definitely bagged 👍

 

[Espresso vecchio]

The 'House in the Clouds' in Thorpeness on the edge of the golf course. It was built as a water tower in 1923 and disguised from the very start so as to match the mock-Tudor village. The water tank was removed over 40 years ago and the House is now rentable via AirBnB. It celebrated its centenary in February.

I pass the House often enough but cannot strictly claim that it is a water tower.

The picture is from the BBC, as it would be much better than mine (& it's too grey and wet to ride today!)

 

[Dogtrousers]

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The 'House in the Clouds' in Thorpeness on the edge of the golf course. It was built as a water tower in 1923 and disguised from the very start so as to match the mock-Tudor village. The water tank was removed over 40 years ago and the House is now rentable via AirBnB. It celebrated its centenary in February.

I pass the House often enough but cannot strictly claim that it is a water tower.

The picture is from the BBC, as it would be much better than mine (& it's too grey and wet to ride today!)

Disguised?

No water tower here. Just an ordinary house. OK, an ordinary house that's slightly higher than most. But definitely no water tower.

 

[HLaB]

I extended my commute tonight and came across this water tower near Levens Green

Just outside Aston End I came across this one too!

 

[Datum2]

 

[simongt]

Ahh, a Braithwaite Tower. Unmistakeable - !

 

[Datum2]

Ahh, a Braithwaite Tower. Unmistakeable - !

Straight into google to look that up!
Indeed a company with a long history of manufacturing and exporting. Thanks for the manufacturers name 👍

 

[simongt]

Yup. The considerable advantage of the Braithwaite system that it was based on cast iron; later steel panels so a tank could be built to pretty much any capacity simply by bolting the requisite number of panels together. Also very common on the British railway networks as the water tank of choice.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Water tower near Ver in Normandy. Where? Ver!

 

[Datum2]

Between Potton and Cockayne Hatley. I think we're in Bedfordshire for this one or whatever it's called now.

 

[Jenkins]

Ely

 

[Datum2]

Pettistree, nr Woodbridge

 

[Jenkins]

Not very pretty, but as I was passing...

(Risby, just to the west of Bury St. Edmunds)