Brunels tower

Once again Doras Exploras have been on a mission to find new photo's for your viweing pleasure.
As we were walking around we saw in the distance... a giant tower! Brunels' Tower!

this is Isambard Kingdom Brunels tower and dock basin. built in 1861, the docks helped expand the town of neath to new hights. now the heavy industry is leaving Brunels tower still dominates the land scape and thanks to the town councils £70,000 cash investment the tower has been saved and restored to its former glory hopefully for another 150 years, in the pipe line is a plan to turn the dried basin into a marina in time for its 200th birthday.

we werent able to get inside, but hopefully we will sometime soon! keep an eye out!



this is the railway that fed the east side of Brunels' dock yard.




these are the remnants of wooden pylons that would hold back the sand and silt.


This is a shot of the old pumping gear


And a final leaving shot, to show how imposing it was.


more pictures of the tower and the dock on our webpage.

Tower.

Tower in November 2007, before restoration.

Engineer said:

Tower in November 2007, before restoration.

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cheers for the pic, ive only been able to find outside shots so far

Ooh, some nice bits and pieces there. Interesting to see the remains of the rail and pumping gear.
Love the pic of the wooden posts. Good stuff.

Presumably the tower originally housed a hydraulic accumulator, and the wooden posts are in fact the remains of a timber groyne.

hmmm, well i have just beeninformed that yes infact it was Brunels accumulator tower!

thanks for the info on the wooden posts i knew what i meant to say... but you gave it the name cheers!!

also cheers foxy for the comments