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Following the post about water towers of May 8th last, we have been keeping a firm eye on the water tower in question. I can now report, that after a period of dormancy, the tower is now half encased in scaffolding. We think it is rising scaffolding rather than falling scaffolding, so it is possible that the tower itself is about to start falling.

Can it be that the Water Tower Heritage & Safety Department of Epsom & Ewell Borough Council has found a bit of money left over towards the end of the year which it had better spend before those rotters from the Finance Department claw it back?

So tower spotters and other connoisseurs of water towers had better get down Horton Lane sharpish for a last gander at this monument to Victorian care for those in trouble on the sea of the world.