Crampton Tower - Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2AB. - Water Towers on Waymarking.com

Crampton Tower was a water tower built by Broadstairs native and renowned Victorian engineer, Thomas Russell Crampton.  The Tower, together with the a covered reservoir (called the 'beehive' due to it's shape), obtained it's water supply from wells sunk nearby, and an engineers workshop which housed gas fired pumping equipment, also designed by Crampton, were opened in 1859

The gas fired pump drew water from the 'beehive', up into the storage pressure tanks housed at the top of the 90 foot high water tower.  It could hold 83,000 gallons of water (380,00 litres), and it supplied the private customers of Crampton's 'Broadstairs Water Company' with water until it was taken over by the Broadstairs Urban District Council in 1901. However, by 1912, by which time the town of Broadstairs had grown considerably, and together with a contamination problem, believed to have been caused by sea sand used in the cement lining of the reservoir, the supply of water from Crampton's Tower was stopped, and replaced by a new supply from further out of town.

The Tower now houses a museum to commemorate the many other achievements of Thomas Russell Crampton, and is custodian to many of his artefacts. The Museum website can be viewed here.

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