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Description: | 1972. Bruntcliffe Water Tower was prominent on Morley's skyline for about 100 years. It was connected with Morley's first piped water which had to be pumped up Churwell Hill from Leeds. This was in 1869 before Churwell became part of Morley so Churwell itself also had a water tower. Next to Bruntcliffe Water Tower was a water works cottage and a large service reservoir for linking to the tower so that a supply could be sent throughout the township by taking it to the highest point in the town and then letting the pressure created distribute the water. When this picture was taken in 1972 the water tower had been out of use for many years; this is a copy of a slide showing a sunrise at Bruntcliffe taken by Len Sanderson. The tower is already slightly demolished and the town is being supplied with water from another reservoir off Bruntcliffe Road which is at the highest point in the town and connected directly to Withens Clough. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Water tower | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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