Re: WATER TOWER
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:14 am
Good question Matt !
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Sorry that I missed your request for more info until now .AMP wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:39 pmI would be interested to know the name of that place - worth a visit if I am ever in the vicinitybrian walling wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:12 am An interesting ‘aside’ from the underlying topic:
Quite coincidentally, the CH Water Tower and its height were fresh in my mind yesterday when I answered the original post. My wife’s family in UK has ancestral links to a small town in central Germany and just the day before yesterday we unearthed a new fact about the German family in the 1800s. They held the position of town watchman and resided in a small house built on top of the town’s fortified medieval church tower. The tower is listed as being 36 metres or 120 feet high. This immediately struck me as being exactly the height of CH’s tower. Imagine living that high up (300+steps) and even being born up there, as the children were, including the one who subsequently emigrated to England. The ‘live-in’ arrangement ended in the 1840s, but the tower-house survived and you can now have your wedding up there if you want something unusual.
Should be on the school plansFoureyes wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:40 am Does anyone know the height of the water tower?
This question was posed once before, but while it generated many remarks and reminiscences, not one answered the question!
So, to be specific, what is the height of the water tower (answers in feet or metres, don't mind which)?
David