Basford Waterworks
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Basford Waterworks
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: Unknown
Basford Waterworks was located at the junction of Haydn Road and Hucknall Road at the site now occupied by the Severn Trent Water Authority. The reservoir wasn't used for the storage of drinking water but I believe for cooling of the water heated to drive the four steam beam engines on the site. These beam engines are now in the industrial museum at Wollaton Hall. The building on the right is the Nos. 1 and 2 Engine House and the one of the left is No. 3 Engine House. My father, rowing the boat, was one of the superintendents at the works. The reservoir was occasionally drained and cleaned and I remember on one such occasion a revolver was discovered on the bottom. My mother would have taken the photo using my dad's camera and the child in the boat was me.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.980196
Longitude
-1.158613