What is this 'bowl' at Damflask Reservoir?

[karl101 10]

Hello,

 

Does anyone know what this large concrete D shaped bowl is? It is below Damflask Reservoir near Bradfield, It is next to the dam overflow, but is not connected to it and is above it.

 

Here it is on google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/dvCK

 

and here's a photo taken inside it:

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

K.

Edited July 16, 2012 by karl101

[LBullock 10]

It looks like its not been used for a while whatever it is?!

 

ssl.panoramio.com/photo/19394377 shows its an old dam wall?

Edited July 16, 2012 by LBullock

[pigeon 11]

It looks like its not been used for a while whatever it is?!

 

ssl.panoramio.com/photo/19394377 shows its an old dam wall?

 

IT WAS FULL OF WATER IN THE 70"S WHEN WE FISHED AT DAM FLASK

[ferretman 10]

When I was a kid I told it was a trout hatchery.

[hard2miss 10]

Its a reservoir like is on Wincobank hill, it probably fed water into the factories down Loxley Valley.

[telman 10]

It,s a feeding bowl for the monster that lives in the dam.

[speeder 10]

probably a feeder/header dam for the old brickworks, seem to remember it being drained after 2007 as the wall moved.

[grinder 10]

Is it Wednesdays training ground ?

[Sparkgap 10]

I was told by my Dad who worked at Marshall's brick works below it, that it's a "Compensation water dam". He told me that there's a pipeline to it from Blackburn Meadows which is near Meadowhall. As I understand it the water company had to guarantee a supply of water to the factories downstream of Damflask, water being pumped from the other side of the city, from the River Don I presume. I too remember it being full in the late 60's early 70's. By the late 70's it was all but empty, I did ice skate on it when it had about a foot depth of water around that time, during a particularly hard winter (77 or 78).

[muntjac 10]

Very interesting.

Also interesting is if you pan out a little to the West to Dungworth.

Who marked out out the football pitch ? Queerest shape I've ever seen.