The City of Nottingham Water Department, formerly the Nottingham Corporation Water Department, was responsible for the supply of water to Nottingham from 1880 to 1974. The first water supply company i
Papplewick Pumping Station was the first to be built after the Nottingham Waterworks Company was taken over by the Corporation.
Park Hill pumping station on The Ropewalk was built in 1850, but abandoned in 1880 due to water quality issues.
Bestwood Pumping Station was the last to be built by the Nottingham Waterworks Company in 1871.
Severn Trent Water occupy the site of Basford Waterworks. The reservoir was used for cooling the exhaust water from the three beam engines, one of which has been preserved.
Thomas Hawksley
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Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Hawksley was, with John Frederick Bateman, the lea
City of Nottingham Water Department
…became polluted. Other companies were set up in the late 18th century and in 1824, while in 1826 the Trent Water Company was established. They employed Thomas Hawksley as their engineer, who became one of the great water engineers of the period, and Nottingham had the first constant pressurised water supply system in…
Thomas Hawksley
Hawksley's grave in Brookwood Cemetery