The first cookridge water tower
Posted: Fri 05 Feb, 2016 12:14 pm
On crag hill "summit" stands a wood, in that wood is a water tank encased in concrete with "meat means murder" scrawled across it. Morrissey is the suspected vandal.
The tank was a puzzlement but Don Cole says that in 1908 wharfedale council condemned a few dairy farms for using "impure water".
So The landowner, Wormald of Cookridge Hall spent £860 to build the tank and a pumping station below the tank over the otley old road to pump water from a spring there, up to the tank for gravity distribution to the farms.
The wind powered engine was put in a small brick built engine house which is a roofless ruin still standing today.
If Leo has his camera?
The tank was a puzzlement but Don Cole says that in 1908 wharfedale council condemned a few dairy farms for using "impure water".
So The landowner, Wormald of Cookridge Hall spent £860 to build the tank and a pumping station below the tank over the otley old road to pump water from a spring there, up to the tank for gravity distribution to the farms.
The wind powered engine was put in a small brick built engine house which is a roofless ruin still standing today.
If Leo has his camera?