Photographs taken around Thirlmere Reservoir and Wythburn in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Thirlmere Fells - Keswick - Grasmere - Threlkeld and St Johns in the Vale
The straining well and valve house for Thirlmere Reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria.
This castle-like building was built between 1890 and 1894 by engineer, G.H. Hill for Manchester Corporation Waterworks Committee.
The building now only houses an electronically operated valve which controls the flow of water to major towns and cities in Lancashire and Greater Manchester. In October, 1894, the first waters made their way steadily downhill all the way to Manchester without the need for any pumps. This 94 mile journey takes 27 hours. This castle-like tower has not housed a straining plant since 1980, when the Dunmail Raise water treatment centre was opened.
Valve House on the dam wall of Thirlmere Reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Manchester Corporation Waterworks plaque on the road over the dam of Thirlmere Reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria.
The road over the dam wall of Thirlmere Reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Reflections of Helvellyn Screes and Long Crags in a slightly frosted Thirlmere, the Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
Reflections of a snow-capped Blencathra in Thirlmere Reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Reflections of Armboth Fell and Raven Crag in Thirlmere Reservoir, the Lake District, Cumbria.
Wythburn Church beside the A591on the east bank of Thirlmere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Situated at the foot of Helvellyn, Wythburn’s lonely position attracted the attention of the Romantic Lake Poets. Coleridge described it as Wythburn’s ‘humble house of prayer’ and Wordsworth described it as ‘Wythburn’s modest house of prayer’. The church is still an active Anglican church, but its congregation was much depleted in 1894 when the valley was flooded with water for the Thirlmere Reservoir.
A vestry window in Wythburn Church on the east bank of Thirlmere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
This small church was built in 1740. A rounded chancel was added in 1872.
Poet, Mathew Arnold's commemorative stone near Wythburn Church on the east bank of Thirlmere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
The stone was placed by Canon Hardwick Rawnsley, vicar of Crosthwaite Church and one of the founders of the National Trust. It records two walks over the nearby Armboth Fells in July 1833 and July 1843 that inspired Matthew Arnold to write his poem 'Resignation' The inscription reads:
'A RECORD OF THE TWO WALKS FROM HENCE OVER THE ARMBOTH FELLS JULY 1833-43 WHICH INSPIRED MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POEM "RESIGNATION" AND IN REVERENT MEMORY OF THE POET BORN 24 DEC.1822 DIED 15 APRIL 1888. WE LEFT JUST TEN YEARS SINCE, YOU SAY THAT WAY-SIDE INN WE LEFT TODAY AND NOW IN FRONT BEHOLD OUTSPREAD THOSE UPPER REGIONS WE MUST TREAD MILD HOLLOWS AND CLEAR HEATHY SWELLS THE CHEERFUL SILENCE OF THE FELLS. M.A'. H.D.R.