Pete Stamp Clip 8 : Water Storage and the Hydraulic Lift

Charlton tank is situated on the Failand Road by Charlton Lodge just as you go inside of the gate to Charlton Lodge, to the right hand side is an underground reservoir – that is shown as A on the map. Tyntesfield tank is situated above the Saw Mills on the right hand side of – there is two tanks there, one tank is for domestic water, the other one is for soft water, the soft water tank got its water from the catchment up at Failand, that’s shown as B on the map and in the house there would be – all washing would be done from the soft water tank. I went to the house one day and I said to the lady about the lift in the house and I said that it was a water lift in the kitchen, it wasn’t a lift for carrying people, it was a lift for carrying suitcases for guests up to the first floor, and I said it’s water and I said it’s fed by a tank in the roof. I said what used to happen was when you pulled a lever the tank would fill another tank up and when it got heavy enough it would go down and the lift would go up, when the lift wanted to come down, you would pull the lever and the water would run out of the bottom of the tank into a lead tray, and the lift would come back down again. I said I know because I repaired the tank with gutter bolts and tap washers whenever it got a hole in the tank, we used to just put a gutter bolt and two tap washers one each side and tighten them up and that’s how we used to repair the tank, Now the water from the lift was then piped and goes out to the lake, The lake in the garden.