In your Nostalgia article of October 1 on the Skipton Baptist Church, I was interested to notice in the old photograph evidence of the new pipeline being laid along Rectory Lane.
This pipeline would have been to carry the first water supply from the temporary intake constructed above Embsay Reservoir whilst the permanent reservoir works were being undertaken. It continued down Bunker’s Hill and along Newmarket Street to connect with the existing supply from Whinny Gill Reservoir.
As mentioned in my book ‘History of Skipton Water Supply’, the pipeline was commenced in October 1904 and was in use by July of the following year.
The temporary intake is shown in a Rowley Collection photograph but ceased to be used following commissioning of the completed reservoir in February 1910, although the structure is still very evident today, as shown in the other photograph I took in 2017.
Jim Crossley
Retired chartered water engineer
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