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Title: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 09 April, 2014, 07:26:16 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1840_zps9ddee270.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1840_zps9ddee270.jpg.html)


top of Hollingbourne Hill
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 20 April, 2014, 01:02:38 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1883_zps32d9f7a2.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1883_zps32d9f7a2.jpg.html)

Minster Sheppey
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Adam on 20 April, 2014, 05:01:38 pm
 (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/2010%20rides/DSCF0018_zps2e5c2037.jpg)

Converted water tower in Littlestone, Kent, just north of Dungeness.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Psychler on 22 April, 2014, 06:38:50 pm
(https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2898/13972390374_000a03edcd_m.jpg)

The water tower at what remains of RAF Matching in Essex.  Really rusty, it couldn't hold much water nowadays.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:43:21 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2160_zpse93b7e59.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2160_zpse93b7e59.jpg.html)

In France, the name on it is the name of the town
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:44:42 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2169_zpse079263c.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2169_zpse079263c.jpg.html)

a larger one in Berck sur mer N. France
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:47:05 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2166_zpsb2e118b6.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2166_zpsb2e118b6.jpg.html)

Another from N. France around Montreuil sur mer
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:48:13 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2158_zps7c8d2829.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2158_zps7c8d2829.jpg.html)

on the way to St. Omer
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:49:46 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2065_zps158d9784.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2065_zps158d9784.jpg.html)

Another larger French one ( N> FRance)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:50:45 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2061_zps7114c298.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2061_zps7114c298.jpg.html)

and another :)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 02:51:26 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2062_zpsbcfcdc20.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2062_zpsbcfcdc20.jpg.html)

and another!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 August, 2014, 05:05:50 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2166_zpsb2e118b6.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2166_zpsb2e118b6.jpg.html)

Another from N. France around Montreuil sur mer
Montreuil-sur-Mer, cartography's greatest contribution to France!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: JStone on 07 August, 2014, 10:12:02 pm
All these French ones are getting a bit repetitive - so here's yet another, with added artwork

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6uMMdjVq_vk/U-Ppb6LYu9I/AAAAAAAAHX8/8TlHndkUupI/s640/IMG_0969.jpg)
Neuvy-sur-Barangeon (Cher)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 August, 2014, 11:15:30 pm
Thought I had a pic ofthe one in Battle Mountain but all I could find was a picture of a crow perched halfway up it chiz.  This omission will be rectified next month.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 07 August, 2014, 11:20:49 pm
I do find this all quite amazing really. I mean they are something that most people aren't even aware exist, yet there are so many different types, shapes and styles. I suppose they would employ specialist designers, but something so perfunctory as a water tower you would assume to be a std shape/method of construction, but no, they are all different, each water board/local authority must employ an architect and basically give them a free hand, but with a budget constraint. All rather fascinating really, I wish now, I had been a water tower Architect, instead of pissing about with designing houses and nursing homes. :'(
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 August, 2014, 10:15:31 am
I remember seeing one in Hungary that was a large metal sphere on top of a tall metal tower. Looked rather pleasing but at the same time a little spooky.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 August, 2014, 10:41:41 am
Siwards Howe (or Bunny Hill if your local) water tower near York University.
Allegedly it's the biggest in Europe, its huge anyway and looks like a castle. When I was little my uncle used to tell me a dragon lived in it. Not used to store water anymore.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Siwards_Howe_January_1978.jpg/1920px-Siwards_Howe_January_1978.jpg)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2014, 02:03:15 am
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5557/14975028629_ce0e08a636_c.jpg)
As promised, the Battle Mountain water tower.  Sorry about the McD's sign; the Scottish Restaurant is right next door to the motel...
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 September, 2014, 02:44:44 am
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3835/15260325461_4d4e28256a_o.jpg)
Alamosa, Colorado.  I think it may have been to the moon and back in a previous life.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: LEE on 25 September, 2014, 09:49:26 am
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5557/14975028629_ce0e08a636_c.jpg)
As promised, the Battle Mountain water tower.  Sorry about the McD's sign; the Scottish Restaurant is right next door to the motel...

A photo that reminds me very much of my year in "mid-west" America.

Although we Brits grow up on a diet of glossy US Cop dramas, set in glossy cities, I found most of it looked a lot like this, for mile..after mile...after mile......over the horizon.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2014, 02:37:39 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15149753469_e28064475e_o.jpg)
That might or might not be a water tower.  Could be some form of alien Infernal Device.  Top end of White Sands Missile Range on the scorching plains™ of New Mexico.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: cycleman on 25 September, 2014, 07:17:59 pm
water tower at swaffam prior

(http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w626/cycleman1081/IMG_0060_zps0c0987a8.jpg) (http://s1333.photobucket.com/user/cycleman1081/media/IMG_0060_zps0c0987a8.jpg.html)

and near risby 

(http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w626/cycleman1081/IMG_0100_zps05b545fe.jpg) (http://s1333.photobucket.com/user/cycleman1081/media/IMG_0100_zps05b545fe.jpg.html)

both taken over the milldenhall weekend trip  :)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Aidan on 25 September, 2014, 08:09:12 pm
Siwards Howe (or Bunny Hill if your local) water tower near York University.
Allegedly it's the biggest in Europe, its huge anyway and looks like a castle. When I was little my uncle used to tell me a dragon lived in it. Not used to store water anymore.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Siwards_Howe_January_1978.jpg/1920px-Siwards_Howe_January_1978.jpg)

I once knocked myself out falling off a rope swing on the hill next to that!  They put an underground reservoir in just the other side of it from that picture in the 70s .The water tower is a really spooky place until you get close up and see the crap thats stored in it!Good place for bats though!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 September, 2014, 08:13:19 pm
Favourite two are the large one of the Southwold pair (star of "Drowning By Numbers") and The House In The Clouds at nearby Thorpeness, which is just nuts.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: hatler on 25 September, 2014, 08:26:52 pm
Favourite two are the large one of the Southwold pair (star of "Drowning By Numbers") and The House In The Clouds at nearby Thorpeness, which is just nuts.
We stayed in the House in the Clouds. I abseiled down from the top to a lower window wearing a dry suit over my DJ and a dotted white line across my bonce. It was a London Tube Stations themed party.

I had two mates who knew about ropes hanging on to me from the top.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2014, 09:40:49 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15149753469_e28064475e_o.jpg)
That might or might not be a water tower.  Could be some form of alien Infernal Device.  Top end of White Sands Missile Range on the scorching plains™ of New Mexico.

Tripod. Definitely. 

Quote
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 September, 2014, 01:29:22 am
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2941/15168641218_e0bbfb135b_o.jpg)
This rather elegant tower is in Lake Pueblo Sate Park in sunny Colorado
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 05 October, 2014, 09:19:41 am
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1347_zps262202ad.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1347_zps262202ad.jpg.html)

Partially hidden, at the top of Bluebell Hill,  opp the picnic area.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 02 November, 2014, 01:35:01 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1375_zps0aed3b40.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1375_zps0aed3b40.jpg.html)

Merlimont, N.France
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 02 November, 2014, 01:37:16 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1380_zpsc368746d.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1380_zpsc368746d.jpg.html)

(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1381_zps69f50060.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1381_zps69f50060.jpg.html)

In Le Crotoy, N.France. (You'll notice 'Wallace' in the foreground, my trusty LR 110.)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 13 May, 2015, 04:42:56 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20150412_09_25_49_Pro_zpso5jptcxu.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20150412_09_25_49_Pro_zpso5jptcxu.jpg.html)

In Vigo village , N.Kent

Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: JStone on 22 July, 2015, 04:10:32 pm
Time for another one?

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AXJOPFCABYM/Va-xEgxUjmI/AAAAAAAAeLo/I2tDxJR_Ilk/s640-Ic42/IMG_0151.JPG)
Between Villeneuve d'Ascq and Chéreng, France (Nord)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 31 August, 2015, 02:48:23 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20150821_11_46_36_Pro_zpseazcbwp8.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20150821_11_46_36_Pro_zpseazcbwp8.jpg.html)

(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20150821_11_47_19_Pro_zpspqym1d12.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20150821_11_47_19_Pro_zpspqym1d12.jpg.html)

Nr. Le Touquet, N. France
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: TimO on 01 October, 2015, 01:37:41 pm
I tried to take a photo of Park Hill Water Tower in Croydon (https://goo.gl/maps/7rL2sP7ddjr), on Saturday, but couldn't get very close.  The park was actually closed, because there was a stag deer in it!  This is the best shot I could get, from a footpath adjacent to the park.

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/small.php?size=512&file=ParkHillWaterTower_20150927.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/ParkHillWaterTower_20150927.jpg)

I may go back and see if they've got rid of the deer yet, but I'll use a different route, as Water Tower Hill is at least 1 in 10, albeit for a very short distance.  I had to get off and walk, since I simply couldn't turn the pedals on the single speed commuter!  That's the only hill that has defeated me on a single speed, other than Ditchling Beacon, which is significantly longer.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Kim on 04 October, 2015, 08:06:09 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2015_10_04_17_26_58.sized.jpg)

What it says on the tin.  I thought it was an interesting colour.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 16 March, 2016, 06:45:26 pm
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20160310_11_12_03_Pro_zpsz96mssag.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20160310_11_12_03_Pro_zpsz96mssag.jpg.html)

in Calais

(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20160310_14_34_51_Pro_zpshtqfyrzh.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20160310_14_34_51_Pro_zpshtqfyrzh.jpg.html)

in Bleriot Plage, between Calais and Sandgatte
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: JStone on 11 July, 2016, 03:46:55 pm
A colourful one seen a couple of weeks ago in Vaulx-en-Velin (E suburbs of Lyon)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AZCdxtrtnnY/V4OuIuQo-cI/AAAAAAAAfHI/kVx6ej1ca98VX-yp7zQp9Q-Ff_FjnAHsACCo/s640/IMG_1302.JPG)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2016, 11:08:36 pm
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7707/29298672695_f476a518c4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LD2mDe)
Gardner, Illinois (https://flic.kr/p/LD2mDe) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Lots like this in the rural bits south of Chicago.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2016, 12:17:56 am
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8053/29246559311_16303e3c0f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lyqg9B)
Auburn IL (https://flic.kr/p/Lyqg9B) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8118/28704528343_1f470d7340_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KJwde6)
Collinsvile IL (https://flic.kr/p/KJwde6) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

This proclaims itself "The World's Largest Catsup (sic) Bottle" but is a water tower in its copious free time
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Joe.B on 30 August, 2016, 09:03:33 pm
This one is on a US navy base on Andros Island in the Bahamas.

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8337/29311967586_9bfdaec0c8_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LEcuKu)tower (https://flic.kr/p/LEcuKu) by Joe.Audax (https://www.flickr.com/photos/84858164@N02/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8395/29058194440_7bfef80670_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LgLQQq)Water tower (https://flic.kr/p/LgLQQq) by Joe.Audax (https://www.flickr.com/photos/84858164@N02/), on Flickr 
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2016, 10:55:36 pm
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8492/29268051541_7362958013_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LAjq3i)
Uranus MO (https://flic.kr/p/LAjq3i) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8436/28725608393_b3b7ea0bae_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLofAe)
St Robert MO (https://flic.kr/p/KLofAe) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2016, 03:34:16 am
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8414/29084160150_b60fbf6cbd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lj4Vx5)
Commerce OK (https://flic.kr/p/Lj4Vx5) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2016, 11:35:40 pm
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8016/29312701461_32882b1167_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LEgfUv)
Double whammy, Edmond OK (https://flic.kr/p/LEgfUv) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8169/29104108040_f3ac6c02b4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LkQamd)
Near Lake Overholser, Oklahoma City... (https://flic.kr/p/LkQamd) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8249/29392068985_1b7b998897_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LMh376)
...and its twin brother (https://flic.kr/p/LMh376) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 September, 2016, 01:08:50 am
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8432/29305117652_7dcff1596d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDAovb)
Groom TX (https://flic.kr/p/LDAovb) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8438/29305119262_688c5db16b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDAoYW)
Oh, wait... (https://flic.kr/p/LDAoYW) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Actually, they did it on purpose.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 September, 2016, 12:42:35 am
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8143/29171847100_9f7094f718_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LrPkP3)
Holbrook AZ (https://flic.kr/p/LrPkP3) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Andrij on 05 September, 2016, 11:39:38 am
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8118/28704528343_1f470d7340_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KJwde6)
Collinsvile IL (https://flic.kr/p/KJwde6) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

This proclaims itself "The World's Largest Catsup (sic) Bottle" but is a water tower in its copious free time

ketchup - catsup (https://youtu.be/P2-1basQhX8)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Samuel D on 05 September, 2016, 01:09:12 pm
Actually, they did it on purpose.

Well, why?

Water towers are brilliant. This thread would make Bernd and Hilla Becher proud.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 September, 2016, 02:54:15 pm
Actually, they did it on purpose.

Well, why?

The guidebook is buried deep within The Luggage but IIRC it was a perfectly normal but surplus to requirements water tower on a ranch, which the owner of a truck stop  /diner / business that needed advertising bought and transported (whole!) some eighty miles to its current location next to Route 66 / I-40

Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Samuel D on 05 September, 2016, 03:20:17 pm
Fantastic! I wish America wasn’t so far away. I’d love to tour the flyover states.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 September, 2016, 02:08:03 am
Seen a few on the road, notably a rather damp Czech chap doing a supported ride who I kept seeing back in Oklahoma.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2016, 02:18:49 am
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8053/28885272334_f66b72b451_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/L1uz7N)
P9060378 (https://flic.kr/p/L1uz7N) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Behind Roy's Motel & Cafe, Amboy CA
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 September, 2016, 01:42:34 am
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7744/29508399080_d24fdbd74f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LXyfZo)
P9190383 (https://flic.kr/p/LXyfZo) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr.  Idaho Falls ID.  Has a waterfall and a bridge too!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Andrij on 17 October, 2016, 01:51:33 am
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5655/30075826590_97aeeafd32_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPGtqj)
DSC_0951.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/MPGtqj) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
Walnut Creek, Ohio
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: matthew on 17 October, 2016, 12:40:56 pm
Looks like I may be about to be involved in a project to decommission a water tower,  :'( I won't say which until the project is confirmed and announced publicly as the tower in question is likely to be a local landmark.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Samuel D on 17 October, 2016, 12:42:21 pm
Do you know why, generally speaking, water towers have fallen out of favour? The principle – reducing the maximum pumping capacity required to service peak demand – seems sound.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: matthew on 17 October, 2016, 12:52:58 pm
IMHO The improved efficiency of variable speed pumps and improved telemetry.

Historically pumps were either on or off and pumped a set volume. Water towers provide a small reservoir at height to ensure the mains pressure is appropriate and when the level reaches a set point the pumps come on to refill the tower / meet the instantaneous demand that was causing the tower level to drop. Pumping power to meet full demand was therefore always there unless like the American ones shown above they are huge. Their main purpose was to ensure the pressure to meet small demands e.g. overnight which are too small for it to be desirable to require the pumps to run and when the pumps did run there was sufficient volume to fill that they would run for a sensible amount of time.

Now you can sit a booster pump at the low level reservoir and a pressure gauge in the network and the pump can run slowly to meet a trickling demand and then step up at 7am when everyone gets up and has their morning shower.

The other killer is maintaining towers that in the UK are often designed to obscure their purpose, so ornate, and are now quite old. As the tower has to be able to vent air in and out as it empties/fills they also present a point at which contamination can occur, pity the poor sod who has to climb out on the top to ensure the vent is both clear and the cover in place.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: TimC on 18 October, 2016, 06:52:20 am
This one is on a US navy base on Andros Island in the Bahamas.

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8337/29311967586_9bfdaec0c8_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LEcuKu)tower (https://flic.kr/p/LEcuKu) by Joe.Audax (https://www.flickr.com/photos/84858164@N02/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8395/29058194440_7bfef80670_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LgLQQq)Water tower (https://flic.kr/p/LgLQQq) by Joe.Audax (https://www.flickr.com/photos/84858164@N02/), on Flickr 

I've been there!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 September, 2017, 11:42:49 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/36178875763_b8ed4a4d28_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/X81cj4)
P9020228 (https://flic.kr/p/X81cj4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Chamberlain, South Dakota
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Bluebottle on 10 September, 2017, 07:36:04 pm
All of which (particulalry Northern French) lovliness reminds me of the twitter feed of Brutalist Stilgoe (https://twitter.com/brut_stilgoe?lang=en). He never mentioned any of this when he was on Countdown...
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 September, 2017, 03:26:32 am
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4367/37193498381_7cc9f0c3de_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YEEpgt)
P9190065 (https://flic.kr/p/YEEpgt) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Dinuba CA.  I hope those black dots are birds, otherwise there's something deeply wrong with the camera.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2017, 01:35:16 am
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4426/37267866132_eb2bd604f5_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YMeyd5)
P9240250 (https://flic.kr/p/YMeyd5) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Deming NM
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Jayjay on 02 July, 2018, 08:41:32 pm
I haven't had a decent photo to show here before, this one comes from my recent (and first ever!) cycle trip abroad. Yes I was drying socks on the flag post.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1809/28288975587_622304bf00_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/K6NoSp)Oostburg water tower (https://flic.kr/p/K6NoSp) by John Jackson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/29179705@N02/), on Flickr

Have a closer look, click the pic to Flickr for a closer view and click the pic again to enlarge:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1802/41347733100_1bb3566c5a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25ZKWw1)Oostburg water tower (https://flic.kr/p/25ZKWw1) by John Jackson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/29179705@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: The French Tandem on 04 July, 2018, 07:24:39 am
Is this ^^ a combo water tower / light house?

A
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Samuel D on 04 July, 2018, 08:04:46 am
Or just a viewing platform? In Nykarleby, Finland (not far from where I was born) there is a large water tower with a restaurant and observation deck at the top. They even had a few binoculars lying on the windowsills in the 1990s, although those were gone the last time I was there.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Jayjay on 10 July, 2018, 10:29:15 pm
Observation point I think.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 13 August, 2018, 06:12:55 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1772/42207585560_d1d2cc29a4_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/27iJUGq)IMG_0174 (https://flic.kr/p/27iJUGq) by mark tilley (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_stumpy/), on Flickr

Broadstairs
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Andrij on 14 September, 2018, 04:16:17 am
Strongsville, Ohio
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1874/44616589982_97823b3fa4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2aYBFMq)
P1040769 (https://flic.kr/p/2aYBFMq) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr

Hamburg, Deutschland New York
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1892/43756911735_a21daa3c6c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29EDBoF)
P1040681 (https://flic.kr/p/29EDBoF) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr

Multiple towers, leaving JFK Airport (click link to embiggen)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1899/44616702182_99d8a3653d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2aYCg8U)
20180904_160302 (https://flic.kr/p/2aYCg8U) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 30 September, 2018, 07:43:18 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/30076926957_bf4e6019f1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa)IMG_0298 (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa) by mark tilley (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_stumpy/), on Flickr



ok, for 10 points, who can tell me where this famous landmark is!?????????????
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: αdαmsκι on 10 April, 2019, 02:40:36 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7819/33694368448_716e124f02_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TksrR3) (https://flic.kr/p/TksrR3)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Salvatore on 25 May, 2019, 10:14:00 pm
Shropshire Grand Design.

The builder's portaloo and the fact it was fenced off suggest the conversion isn't quite finished yet.

Or perhaps the architect forgot to include indoor upstairs lavatorial facilities.

(https://i.imgur.com/kmNMmaZm.jpg)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Pingu on 09 September, 2019, 12:29:23 am
In deepest, darkest Flanderererers.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48594801201_fec77247da_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h3a4o2)
IMG_3575_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2h3a4o2) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Kim on 07 November, 2019, 05:03:54 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2019_11_07_15_20_00.sized.jpg)

The newer Headless Cross[1] water tower looking splendid in the winter sun.  This is the one that looks like a radio telescope from Weatheroak Hill.


[1] As nikki OTP points out, isn't a headless cross basically a stick?
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Jurek on 07 November, 2019, 05:48:07 pm
Shropshire Grand Design.

The builder's portaloo and the fact it was fenced off suggest the conversion isn't quite finished yet.

Or perhaps the architect forgot to include indoor upstairs lavatorial facilities.

(https://i.imgur.com/kmNMmaZm.jpg)

I wonder what the plan is for access /egress when the power is off.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: P.P. on 08 November, 2019, 07:18:42 pm
Shropshire Grand Design.

The builder's portaloo and the fact it was fenced off suggest the conversion isn't quite finished yet.

Or perhaps the architect forgot to include indoor upstairs lavatorial facilities.

(https://i.imgur.com/kmNMmaZm.jpg)

I wonder what the plan is for access /egress when the power is off.

We'll if it was mine I’d have a fireman’s pole down the middle bit, not much use for getting back in again but who cares when you’ve got a fireman’s pole!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2019, 10:11:45 pm
Is it just me who gets the screaming abjabs looking at all the non vertical towers in this thread?
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Jaded on 19 November, 2019, 09:00:14 am
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/30076926957_bf4e6019f1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa)IMG_0298 (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa) by mark tilley (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_stumpy/), on Flickr



ok, for 10 points, who can tell me where this famous landmark is!?????????????

I think it is time to reveal!!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2019, 01:41:02 pm
Is it just me who gets the screaming abjabs looking at all the non vertical towers in this thread?

Only now you've mentioned it...
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 19 November, 2019, 02:55:30 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/30076926957_bf4e6019f1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa)IMG_0298 (https://flic.kr/p/MPN7wa) by mark tilley (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_stumpy/), on Flickr



ok, for 10 points, who can tell me where this famous landmark is!?????????????

I think it is time to reveal!!


Can be clearly seen from the Motorway ,..........between Calais and Boulogne     ;D
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: CAMRAMan on 19 November, 2019, 03:39:44 pm
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54785313.html

Seen on my ride to work & on one of them George Clark programmes, I think.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: The French Tandem on 20 November, 2019, 06:59:40 pm
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54785313.html

Seen on my ride to work & on one of them George Clark programmes, I think.

If only I had £1,500,000 ...
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2019, 07:04:43 pm
... and £30,000 for redecorating!
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 September, 2022, 11:58:05 pm
My attention has just been drawn to the “Water Towers of America” froup in Mr Zuckerberg's Walled Garden.  Many splendid specimens in their natural environments.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Pingu on 30 September, 2022, 12:02:15 am
That reminds me.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252687032_0a7b92dbd5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nBoFp7)
IMG_0250_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2nBoFp7) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: ElyDave on 30 September, 2022, 09:09:01 am
Oh No! Am I now going to have to start plotting my routes around "Water Towers of Cambridgeshire"?
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2023, 12:02:31 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53139974320_edfd9f3754_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oXNfZN)
Water tower: Franklin Park IL (https://flic.kr/p/2oXNfZN) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Getting closer requires crossing a busy dual cabbageway, it was far too hot to indulge in pedestrianism and I'd been awake for far too long, so I didn't try.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2023, 10:39:33 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53141647044_439edf704f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oXWQeS)
Water tower: Hillside IL (https://flic.kr/p/2oXWQeS) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53141858130_0828747ce2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oXXUZh)
Water tower: Elmhurst IL (https://flic.kr/p/2oXXUZh) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 August, 2023, 01:20:08 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53146457394_bd16cafcac_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYnubW)
Water Tower: Waverly MO (https://flic.kr/p/2oYnubW) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53149471065_e355a5f503_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYCW3M)
Water Tower: Omaha NE (https://flic.kr/p/2oYCW3M) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 August, 2023, 11:04:43 pm
Multiple watery towery goodness today:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53151437014_6d7361af52_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYP1ss)
Fort Thompson SD (https://flic.kr/p/2oYP1ss) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53151667600_bb4e978ddc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYQc15)
Two water towers for the price of one: Stephan SD (https://flic.kr/p/2oYQc15) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53151231026_57fa3e6863_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYMXdW)
Close-up of the white one, Stephan SD (https://flic.kr/p/2oYMXdW) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53150653312_9016e3b2ed_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYJZum)
Standing Rock Reservation, near Mobridge SD (https://flic.kr/p/2oYJZum) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53151660400_48d9287542_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYQ9RW)
Kenel SD (https://flic.kr/p/2oYQ9RW) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2023, 12:45:13 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53153494806_4b34344fe6_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYZyaC)
Washburn ND (https://flic.kr/p/2oYZyaC) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152923937_4bacacf13c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYWCt4)
Riverdale ND (https://flic.kr/p/2oYWCt4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152924662_19a85b8ac3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oYWCFy)
New Town ND (https://flic.kr/p/2oYWCFy) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 August, 2023, 07:20:44 am
Have you found the "SAVE FERRIS" one yet?
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2023, 12:25:35 pm
(Checks map)

No. Nor am I likely to.  Wrong side of Chicago from where I was this year and I'm going home from Seattle.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2023, 01:02:55 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53155137097_d8d4dd5491_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZ8YmZ)
Poplar MT (https://flic.kr/p/2oZ8YmZ) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53155720906_9b9630bb98_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZbXUE)
Another BOGOF: Frazer MT (https://flic.kr/p/2oZbXUE) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 September, 2023, 01:19:07 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53157238832_f85fb39717_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZjK8N)
Whitehall MT (https://flic.kr/p/2oZjK8N) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53158023164_44e617a555_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZoLhL)
Twin Bridges... (https://flic.kr/p/2oZoLhL) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53157239047_ef193a04c7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZjKcv)
...Twin Towers (https://flic.kr/p/2oZjKcv) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 September, 2023, 01:03:27 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53173849936_218a8f9661_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p1MT39)
Shoshone Reservation water tower, Battle Mountain NV (https://flic.kr/p/2p1MT39) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 09 September, 2023, 05:43:58 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53173849936_218a8f9661_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p1MT39)
Shoshone Reservation water tower, Battle Mountain NV (https://flic.kr/p/2p1MT39) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Y 4 U always (mostly) in USAnia ?
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 September, 2023, 05:46:45 pm
Only once a year…  World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain NV.  See threads passim in “The Dark Side”.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 09 September, 2023, 08:51:43 pm
Ah, me hum bin thinkin' they is recent.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 September, 2023, 02:03:39 am
All the ones I've posted in the last couple of weeks were posted on the day they were taken.  I was on the road for two weeks before arriving in Battle Mountain.  Chicago -> St Louis, follow the Missouri up to Montana, across the mountains, down the Clearwater/Snake/Columbia rivers to the Pacific Coast and then down to Battle Mountain. Returning to BRITAIN from Seattle in a couple of weeks time.
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 10 September, 2023, 07:58:11 am
Ah, didn’t realize you were back out  there again.  ;)
Title: Re: Water Towers
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 September, 2023, 05:04:32 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53197902561_c331315712_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p3Va3z)
Hines OR (https://flic.kr/p/2p3Va3z) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr