Sheila was thrilled to see the Settle Water Tower now restored and it brought back memories of Garsdale's almost identical tower that was demolished in 1971. The picture below is from an earlier Blog posting and shows it in process of being demolished.
What infuriates me is that the Yorkshire Dales Nation Park allowed this to happen. The Garsdale water tower was special. Besides being a fine building it was the local community's village hall. Sheila Brown told me that she had had her 21st birthday party and her wedding reception there. "They tore the heart out of our community when they knocked it down" she said.
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