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Briardene Avenue, BEDWORTH, CV12 8RN

Bedworth's 45m (148ft) tall water tower, built in a simplified Romanesque style, is a prominent local landmark. It is dated 1898 but was not actually completed until 1900 and is now grade II listed. The tower supplied the town with water fed by gravity from a tank at the top; the water was extracted from an 84m (275ft) deep bore hole. That alone, however, was not sufficient to supply all the town's needs and additional water was pumped out of the Newdigate Colliery workings at a depth of about 460m (1500ft) - the colliery water was actually considered to be better quality. Today Bedworth's water is supplied from Welsh reservoirs and the tower was sold in 2015 for conversion to luxury apartments.

Built in 1898, the 45 metre tower is a prominent and very distinctive Bedworth landmark. After some years of disuse it was sold in 2015 for conversion into flats and now appears to be part of a gated luxury housing enclave. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1116416 https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/look-go-inside-bedworth-water-9528106

The Old Black Bank Inn is on the B4113 at the boundary between Bedworth and Exhall. From the date in the gable the current pub dates from 1899, but the earliest large scale Ordnance Survey mapping currently available on line, dating from 1887, also shows a "Black Bank Inn", so evidently there was some form of beer house here serving the local mining community before the current pub was built. The pub has got a very good, informative, and well laid out website here http://www.theoldblackbank.co.uk/

On Black Bank.

Public house along Black Bank in Bedworth.

A sign of the resumption of air travel as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes. A band of cirrus-like cloud forms a travel corridor across an otherwise clear sky. Photo taken at sunset from the waste ground at Hawkesbury; the Bedworth water tower can be seen on the horizon.

At first glance this could be taken for a pub, albeit one housed in a particularly unattractive box of a building. It is, in fact, a private club whose full name is the Saunders Hall Working Men's Club. It is situated on Saunders Avenue close to the town centre.

Possibly connected with the former nearby Exhall Colliery, the lake is shown on Victorian OS maps; it is now a source of local plant and birdlife. Residential buildings on The Waterfront to the left.

Bedworth's water tower, built in 1898 and now converted into luxury apartments, overlooks an otherwise bland suburban scene.

The pool is shown on the earliest edition of the large scale Ordnance Survey mapping currently available on line, dating from 1887, although to a stranger its origins are not clear. Did it have a function connected with the nearby Exhall Colliery, or the local brickmaking industry, or is it a naturally occurring feature? Trying to research its origins on the internet it appears that the new residential development on the left was a source of much discontent amongst various parties in the 2000s.