West Park Water Tower - Oct 2013

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LittleOz

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The water tower at West Park is one of the few remaining bits yet to be redeveloped. Fortunately it's grade II listed and is going to be saved. As the planning application had just gone in for its conversion to what should be a quite unique home, I thought I'd go take a look at what they have to work with.

History: Designed in 1909 by Clifford Smith for London County Council. Built between 1913 - 1921, it stands an impressive six storeys high and used to hold three huge water tanks storing a total of 25,000 gallons.

On with the pics....







Ground floor (always plenty of extinguishers at West Park)



Looking up at the first (and only other) floor



Nice chunky water pipe



Good solid stairs going up, remarkably quite free of pigeon



Aha, opening the closed door to the first floor reveals the deep shag-pile created by years of pigeon residence



Looking up at the three sets of steels which held the water tanks





On reaching the top...










Thanks for looking.
 
Wow!! Didn't even realise this was still standing!

That is quite an impressive pigeon poop carpet - one of the few substances that can be crunchy, yet squidgy...

Great stuff, so glad you chose to share this with us! :)
 
Loverly stuff -like this a lot -ta for sharing! :)

Out of interest, is staircase in separate part of Tower? (can't see any stairs in your shots of main area)
 
this tower really disappointed me when i climbed it,as it doesnt look over the main hospital :(

glad its still standing tho
 
this tower really disappointed me when i climbed it,as it doesnt look over the main hospital :(

glad its still standing tho

Yes, extremely disappointing that the Architect, Mr. Clifford-Smith did not consider the views afforded or us UE'rs when he was designing West Park!!! :mrgreen:
 
Loverly stuff -like this a lot -ta for sharing! :)

Out of interest, is staircase in separate part of Tower? (can't see any stairs in your shots of main area)

Erm...I just went up them, I didn't really think about it at the time. But now you ask, the answer's yes, they're within the tower but separated from the main area by a wall (the one with no windows as you look up)
 

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