Concrete structures below Damflask, what are they ?

[Justin Smith]

Does anyone know what the large concrete tank like structure just below the Damflask is for and is it still used ?

From a distance it looks like a castle !

 

Even more unusual is the concrete structure in the field about 100yds further on. We couldn`t work out what that was for at all. It looked like it had slots for a gate to be dropped into, like on canal locks, but there was no wall either side of it, so, curiouser and curiouser.....

 

Finally, what`s happening with all those old industrial buildings which look like they`ve been empty for years ?

[zepstox]

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19394377

and

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395396

Which way 100yards? Nearer to the dam are the pump house outflows, they look a bit weird and are rarely seen unless you are virtually on top of them.

I think you mean these, the old sluice gates: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395320

[Justin Smith]

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19394377

and

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395396

Which way 100yards? Nearer to the dam are the pump house outflows, they look a bit weird and are rarely seen unless you are virtually on top of them.

I think you mean these, the old sluice gates: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395320

 

Interesting photos.

The totally unidentified structure is just south of that huge concrete tank (the thing that looks like a castle ! ? ! ) in your picture. Perhaps 100yards or so and on the same side of the river.

The concrete looks like the stuff thrown up in the war and the structure itself looks really strong. We had no idea what it was and even speculated that it might have had some war function, anti aircraft or something like that ?

I should have taken a picture of it.....

[bullerboY]

its a folly built by Henry Boot to keep his workers in employment when times were difficult,what changes I hear you asks,perhaps some people in those days cared about their workers.

[david weston]

Apropo this thread, at Derwent Dam you will see ( if they're still there !), at either bank on the water side of the wall, some concrete blocks. I used to cycle there every Sunday in the late 50's and often puzzled what they had been for, assuming some wartime defence. In those days you could walk on the wall from the tower opposite to the roadside one. I was on there one Sunday, listening to 'Beyond Our Ken' or 'Sing Something Simple' on my portable radio, when this elderly, Bowler-hatted gent looking like Sir Edward Elgar sauntered on. He struck up a conversation and then asked "Do you know who I am ?" I said I didn't and he replied " I'm Major Ball, I was in charge of the defences of these dams during the war." He told me the concrete structures were anti-torpedo nets.

[Justin Smith]

Apropo this thread, at Derwent Dam you will see ( if they're still there !), at either bank on the water side of the wall, some concrete blocks. I used to cycle there every Sunday in the late 50's and often puzzled what they had been for, assuming some wartime defence. In those days you could walk on the wall from the tower opposite to the roadside one. I was on there one Sunday, listening to 'Beyond Our Ken' or 'Sing Something Simple' on my portable radio, when this elderly, Bowler-hatted gent looking like Sir Edward Elgar sauntered on. He struck up a conversation and then asked "Do you know who I am ?" I said I didn't and he replied " I'm Major Ball, I was in charge of the defences of these dams during the war." He told me the concrete structures were anti-torpedo nets.

 

Anti torpedo nets sounds reasonable.

It was the structures below the dam I couldn`t work out.

[pigeon]

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19394377

and

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395396

Which way 100yards? Nearer to the dam are the pump house outflows, they look a bit weird and are rarely seen unless you are virtually on top of them.

I think you mean these, the old sluice gates: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19395320[/QUOT

great photos :thumbsup:got many happy memories fishing there. except once when my cuz made me carry all the tackle from malin bridge...

[911wasalie]

During the war there were steel lines strung across the dam to prevent German bombers doing what we did to them, burst the dams.