Description: The large building on the left is the Corporation waterworks pumping station masters/keepers house. Immediately in front of this just out of view was its reservoir. The field on the right between the masters House and the houses in the Meadows was part of the waterworks, with the drain running along the the boundary with the terraced houses. The pumping station itself is also just out of view to the left of the chimney. In the distance is the railway viaduct across the River Trent. The new Trent Waterworks Company opened its works near to the present Town Arms at Trent Bridge in 1831. This remarkable system, the first in the country to provide a supply at constant high pressure so preventing contamination from entering the mains, was constructed under supervision of its designer, the Company Engineer, Thomas Hawksley, then 25 years old. Water flowed through brick filter tunnels laid in the gravel beds on the north side of the river into a reservoir adjoining the pumping station. From there it was pumped by a 40 HP rotative beam engine to a new reservoir built on the corner of Park Row and the Ropewalk. Parts of this 15 inch cast-iron water main between the pumping station and the reservoir remain in service today, although the pumping station itself no longer exists (demolished c 1900).