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Valve-tower for Widdop Reservoir constructed 1872-1878 by John La Trobe Bateman engineer. Large ashlar blocks, bitumen roof. Square on plan with tapering sides. Egyptian in style. Door to south has monolithic jambs with batter. Corners have tapering pilasters acting as buttresses to frieze. Projecting double cornice. Sides and rear have rectangular windows with large plain stone surrounds. A unique building, the engineer deriving the inspiration for the design after his visit to Egypt to witness the opening of the Suez Canal.
NGR SD 93529 32620
CMBC Ref H 181
Historic England List Entry Number 1226701]]>2021-11-02T16:48:10+00:00
Title
Valve Tower SE corner of Widdop Reservoir, Heptonstall - CBC02087
Description
Grade II
Valve-tower for Widdop Reservoir constructed 1872-1878 by John La Trobe Bateman engineer. Large ashlar blocks, bitumen roof. Square on plan with tapering sides. Egyptian in style. Door to south has monolithic jambs with batter. Corners have tapering pilasters acting as buttresses to frieze. Projecting double cornice. Sides and rear have rectangular windows with large plain stone surrounds. A unique building, the engineer deriving the inspiration for the design after his visit to Egypt to witness the opening of the Suez Canal.
NGR SD 93529 32620
CMBC Ref H 181
Historic England List Entry Number 1226701
Undated postcard. One of the 15 engines used during the construction of the reservoirs at Walshaw Dean for Halifax Corporation. Work started in 1901. As well as transporting supplies and materials the railway was also used to transport the navvies from their ‘Dawson City’ shanty town near Heptonstall to the construction sites. The rails were lifted in about 1907 but the trackbed can still be made out in places.
Baitings Reservoir Spillway and Overflow - MIC00106
Description
Baitings and Ryburn reservoirs were built for Wakefield Corporation. Baitings was opened on 14 November 1956 after eight years work and a cost of £1.4 million. It covers 64 acres with a volume of 775 million gallons, reaching a depth of 155 feet (47 m). The dam at the east end of the reservoir is 1,550 feet (470 m) across and 185 feet (56 m) high. At low water levels, the old road and bridge become visible. Ryburn Reservoir was the first to be opened on 7 September 1933 after eight years construction at a cost of £240,000. The dam at the east end of the reservoir is approximately 100 feet (30 m) high. It has a volume of 220 million gallons and covers 26 acres which includes the submerged village of Bogden.
Creator
Michael Clarke
Source
Pennine Heritage
Date
1980s
Rights
PHDA - Michael Clarke Collection
Identifier
MIC00106.tif
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Ryburn Reservoir was the first to be opened on 7 September 1933 after eight years construction at a cost of £240,000. The dam at the east end of the reservoir is approximately 100 feet (30 m) high. It has a volume of 220 million gallons and covers 26 acres which includes the submerged village of Bogden]]>2019-11-13T18:50:28+00:00
Title
Baitings Dam, Ripponden - MIC00105
Description
Baitings and Ryburn reservoirs were built between 1948 and 1956 for Wakefield Corporation. Baitings was opened on 14 November 1956 after eight years work and a cost of £1.4 million. It covers 64 acres with a volume of 775 million gallons, reaching a depth of 155 feet (47 m). The dam at the east end of the reservoir is 1,550 feet (470 m) across and 185 feet (56 m) high. At low water levels, the old road and bridge become visible. Baitings draws extra water from Cragg Vale via the Manshead Tunnel. The downstream side of the dam incorporates a hill climb track 430 yards long with four bends, which is used several times a year for motor club events.
Ryburn Reservoir was the first to be opened on 7 September 1933 after eight years construction at a cost of £240,000. The dam at the east end of the reservoir is approximately 100 feet (30 m) high. It has a volume of 220 million gallons and covers 26 acres which includes the submerged village of Bogden
27th Aug, 1938. Fred Barker, Bottomley (surveyor), Fred Hodgson, G.W. Sutcliffe, Milton Sunderland, G.H. Walton, Tom Sunderland (Treasurer) Arthur Sutcliffe.
Rights
PHDA - Molly Sunderland Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
MOS00104.tif
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Constructed in 1898 as a compensation tunnel for Green Withens Reservoir, one of the former Wakefield Water Board’s biggest holdings with a capacity of over 300 million gallons, the tunnel runs back for 850 feet into the hillside. The other end is at the bottom of the 66 foot high retaining wall of the reservoir itself. The tunnel is sealed by two giant sluice gates each of which take 750 turns of a geared wheel to open or close.
Originally used to allow water to run from the reservoir to feed the mills of the Rishworth Valley, the tunnel was opened at 5 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. every day. Now it is no longer used and only a trickle of water runs down the massive steps leading to the stone conduit.
When the reservoir was being constructed the tunnel served another purpose – a short cut to the wall that was to hold back millions of gallons.
All the local water boards were amalgamated to become Yorkshire Water in 1973.]]>2019-02-01T19:57:54+00:00
Title
Drawoff Pipe at Green Withens Reservoir - CVH00196
Description
Pictured during the drought of 1958/59.
Constructed in 1898 as a compensation tunnel for Green Withens Reservoir, one of the former Wakefield Water Board’s biggest holdings with a capacity of over 300 million gallons, the tunnel runs back for 850 feet into the hillside. The other end is at the bottom of the 66 foot high retaining wall of the reservoir itself. The tunnel is sealed by two giant sluice gates each of which take 750 turns of a geared wheel to open or close.
Originally used to allow water to run from the reservoir to feed the mills of the Rishworth Valley, the tunnel was opened at 5 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. every day. Now it is no longer used and only a trickle of water runs down the massive steps leading to the stone conduit.
When the reservoir was being constructed the tunnel served another purpose – a short cut to the wall that was to hold back millions of gallons.
All the local water boards were amalgamated to become Yorkshire Water in 1973.