The Water Tower baggers thread

[Datum2]

Gorse Lane, Grantham.

 

[Datum2]

Waltham on the Wolds nr Melton Mowbray

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Lady Bolles Water Tower
Heath
It's now a 'conservation village', east of Wakefield (almost every house there is listed/'of interest')

A privately financed structure, dating to the early 1600's
It once pumped water, though pipework, to Old Heath Hall (demolished)
The remnants of the machinery remains in the bottom

Different dates for these two external images, hence the quality
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https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...sing-and-overflow-channel-warmfield-cum-heath


http://www.heathresidentsassociation.co.uk/history/heath-village

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1937336
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/367351

And not too far away, this one was purported to supply water to Nostell Priory in the old estates form
In the second paragraph, a well-head at Ryhill is mentioned (dated 1505), this still exists but is on private land (Dame Bolles is accessible)
https://bwtas.blogspot.com/2008/07/...8u_wq-Dh9aaJRGHlcg2BKcw-RiUxMOY4iXoB24xGNf7NY

With another visit yesterday, & with a better internal view

 

[Jenkins]

An unexpected find on the imaginatively named 'Water Tower Road' in East Carleton

And in the former RAF Wretham - now the Defence Infrastructure Organisation's Wretham Camp