karl101 Â Â 10 #1 Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) Hello, Â 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. Â Here it is on google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/dvCK Â and here's a photo taken inside it: Â Any ideas? Thanks K. Edited July 16, 2012 by karl101 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
LBullock   10 #2 Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pigeon   11 #3 Posted July 17, 2012 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ferretman   10 #4 Posted July 18, 2012 When I was a kid I told it was a trout hatchery. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hard2miss   10 #5 Posted July 20, 2012 Its a reservoir like is on Wincobank hill, it probably fed water into the factories down Loxley Valley. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
telman   10 #6 Posted July 20, 2012 It,s a feeding bowl for the monster that lives in the dam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
speeder   10 #7 Posted July 20, 2012 probably a feeder/header dam for the old brickworks, seem to remember it being drained after 2007 as the wall moved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
grinder   10 #8 Posted July 22, 2012 Is it Wednesdays training ground ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Sparkgap   10 #9 Posted July 29, 2012 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
muntjac   10 #10 Posted July 30, 2012 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...