Haweswater Waterworks
of Manchester Corporation
1925 Design of the Haweswater scheme started, to supply Manchester with water from Haweswater. The Haweswater dam was the first buttress structure to be built in this country.
1929 Construction was started; the dam has a height of 120ft and consists of forty-four buttresses; the reservoir has a capacity of 18,660 million gallons. As well as the reservoir, an aqueduct with one line of pipes was to built to the Heaton Park reservoir in Manchester. However, the scheme was suspended in the financial crisis of 1931. It was then decided to restrict it by building only about 9 miles of aqueduct, to connect with the existing Thirlmere aqueduct; a new Act of Parliament was thus needed.
1930 'Messrs. Ruston and Hornsby, Limited, Lincoln, have installed an oil-engine generating plant, consisting of three 360-b.h.p. Ruston vertical engines driving generators supplied by the Electric Construction Company, Limited, at the new power house at Burn Banks, in the Lake District, in connection with the Haweswater scheme of the Manchester Corporation Waterworks. The plant will supply power for constructional works and will be giving a 24-hour service.'[1]
1934 Work resumed.
1941 The modified scheme was completed in 1941.
Post-WWII Construction of the Haweswater aqueduct itself was started.