Wooden water pipe laid in Newcastle
end of the 18th century |
Further information about the municipal supplies in
Newcastle is that in 1759 Jonah Brittain, pumpmaker, of Audley,was ordered by
Newcastle Quarter Sessions to keep three pumps in repair, viz: the Iron Market
Pump, the Horse Mill Pump and Lower-street Pump. For this work he was to be paid
£1 1s every 5th of November for a term of 40 years. In 1796 Mr. Joseph Tilstone
placed proposals in writing for supplying the inhabitants of Newcastle with
water by means of pipes to be laid in the streets. He requested that the
Corporation "grant a lease of the right of laying such pipes, etc. according to
certain terms and conditions". A lease was granted. The supply was pumped from a
spring called Browning's Well to two reservoirs in Merrial Street. The
proprietor of the Works was, in 1849, E. T. Fielder. The reservoirs were
demolished in about the year 1935 for road widening.
Stoke-upon-Trent and Fenton
The Commission has nothing to say about Stoke-upon-Trent
and Fenton. Mr. Liddle Elliot, the Engineer to the Water Works Company, however,
giving evidence before the General Board of Health in the year 1850, stated, in
respect of these two towns:
"Stoke has no public supply; there is one public well and
two public pumps; the railway has destroyed one well."
"Fenton-This place may be said to have been almost
destitute of water excepting such as falls from the heavens and in summer the
want is most severe; the manufacturers have frequently to prevent parties from
carrying away the condensing water for use."
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