Excavating the new reservoir for Skinningrove works. Steve Partlett tells us: ”Part of this reservoir still exists. It was on the edge of the cliffs, to the north of jetty bank top. One of it’s purposes was to provide storage for No5 Blast furnace cooling water. The concrete block in the middle of the photograph was where the pipes left the reservoir to feed the pumphouse which was built just in front of the block. This probably means the photo was taken sometime during the building of No5 Furnace, (early fifties, I think)and was possibly taken from the top of one of the older Blast furnaces. There was also a large tank supported on a steel trestle in front of the mound in the lower right of the photograph. This provided the “head” of cooling water for a while in case the pumps failed. A Laboratory was built into the steel support trestle. Due to it’s height this tank was visible from the beach below.”
Image and information courtesy of Eric Johnson, thanks to Steve Partlett for the update.
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