Water Walter.....don't

[Who2]

"Water Walter just don't taste like it auta"

Fresh water was first introduced into London at the end of my street. Round about 1650.
It comes from Amwell in Herts about 30 odd miles away in wooden pipes and still supplies
8% of London's water.



The old pump house that used to be a windmill that lifted the water up the hill to the storage ponds.
Which is due to-be transformed into The Quentin Blake Illustration Center...finally...



Last week purchased the book below:
Quite fascinating and illuminating the amount of crooked water companies back then.




Last night, listening to the amount of water wasted by leaks of our modern water companies and realised
that I was also reading about leaks way back then.

All companies supplying essential services should be renationalised, water, leccy, gas ect.
It was financial greed then and now and don't mention excrement floating around into our rivers and streams.....

Ps: An old sketch of Merlin's Well PH. on washing day, exactly 5 floors below where I live now.



Pss: "It never ceases to amaze me the favorable comments of Clerkenwell water then and now..

[Who2]

A highly thoughtful and intelligent view, late on last nights LBC...
"While all the reservoirs are dry, go and dig out 6ft with caterpillars then bank up the waste = 12ft deeper reservoirs.

When it next rains as it always has in 'this green and pleasant land.
much more water qed.. 'simples, and dead cheap in my book...

[Who2]

Good News: They have finally decided to refurbish our old toilets upon the green..



But not as toilets, weird or what ?....tbc...
Ps: Similar to the 'Green in Clerkenwell, it hasn't been green since roman times.

1780

[Who2]

Talking about water, opposite us was once The Clerkenwell Public Baths and Pool.



Pretty cool eh ? It burnt down, don't ask (the council were storing wood in it)
"cleanliness is next to godliness"

The great unwashed of Clerkenwell...
Now look, apartments only for the rich...
St Pauls' View.



And they cannot even see St Paul's Cathedral, like I can. ha!.......

[Who2]

An interesting side fact during this our pandemic...
1853 Compulsory Vaccination Act..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinati ... actitioner.

Anti Vaxxers take note: Smallpox what smallpox ?...........

Ps: Polio in the reservoirs now! At primary school, I was in love with 'Jane Rebecca Taylor.
I was 12 she was 11 and had polio, an absolute stunner...'loves labour's lost'

[BBLUX]

"Water Walter just don't taste like it auta"

Fresh water was first introduced into London at the end of my street. Round about 1650.
It comes from Amwell in Herts about 30 odd miles away in wooden pipes and still supplies
8% of London's water.



The old pump house that used to be a windmill that lifted the water up the hill to the storage ponds.
Which is due to-be transformed into The Quentin Blake Illustration Center...finally...

I have a family connection to the Amwell pumping station. My paternal grandfather was the engineer in charge of the steam pumping engines there back in the 1950's. I remember many visits there with my parents when we went up to see him and Gran while on holiday.