Catalogue description ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF SEVERN TRENT WATER AUTHORITY, SOAR DIVISION 1891-1910

The records in this collection comprise original and facsimile engineering and architectural drawings, plans, elevations, sections and details most executed but some amended as marked, of undertakings commissioned by Leicester Corporation. The engineering firm mentioned chiefly is Easton, Anderson [and later [?] Goolden] Ltd. of 3 Whitehall Place, London S.W. and Erith Iron Works, Kent. In particular J. B. Everard of Leicester M. Inst.C.E. features, several drawings include his signature and comments, and the offical stamps of City Surveyor E. G. Mawbey and City Water Works Dept. resident engineer and manager F.Griffith are also to be found.

The collection should be useful for local, architectural and industrial historians, industrial archaeologists and exhibition use.

CONTENTS

Abbreviations list

Beaumont Leys Sewage Farm 1891 1

Cropston Pure Water Basin c.1894 2

Swithland Pumping Station c.1893-c.1894 3-16

Further schemes at Swithland 1895-1910 17-25

Newtown Linford Sewerage Scheme c.1900 - c.1902 26-36

Newtown Linford Sewage Works, cottage and pumping station c.1909 37-39

Abbreviations

c. circa (about)

Corp. Corporation

Dept. Department

excl. excluding

inc. include(s) or including

Leic. Leicester

Ltd. Limited

MF microfilm

M. Inst. C. E. Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

R. D. C. Rural District Council

W. W. Water Works

[See also DE 198/82-83, 87; DE 295/24; DE 470/70; De 490/85 DE 2198; De 2278; 17D62; 25D73/719-779; 32D73; M. 411/3; M. 206; & M.332]

Severn Trent Water Authority

The arrangement of the drawings is to some extent conjectural as many are not captioned with scheme title. Therefore care should be taken in referring to particular items, which may be inaccurately arranged.

Reference is made in the descriptions to what are presumably microfilm copy reference numbers on certain drawings. Presumably these are still in the custody of S.T.W.A. in its local or main archives. Most technical data have been omitted from the descriptions. The facsimile drawings may be contemporary dyeline prints.

Printed sources:

Leicester Offical Handbook c. 1956

The Water Supplies of Leicestershire, Walter E. Baum. 1949

City of Leicester: The Leicester Water Undertaking 1847-1974, An Historical Review, Leicester Water Dept. 1974

Cropston Pumping Station 1866-1956, D. Lyne & J. Vivian 1983

The pedigree of Leicester area water undertakings is roughly as follows.

In 1847 The Leicester Waterworks Co. was formed pursuant to the Leicester Waterworks Act. In 1878 this undertaking was bought by Leicester Corporation and administered by its Water[works] Dept., until Severn Trent Water Authority assumed responsibility for Leicester's water supply and sewage disposal arrangements in 1974.

In 1847 the area of operation was limited by the Act of Parliment to Leicester Borough, Birstall and part of Thurmaston. Resulting from various other Acts and Ministerial orders, the Dept. came to cover an area of supply of 82% of Leicestershire and Rutland and two Nottinghamshire parishes by 1974.

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