Water supply Subject Busby's Bore Damming the Cooks River Lake Parramatta Servicing Sydney's thirst The Tank Stream Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood Water Botany Pumping Station Royal Commission on the Conservation of Water 1887 Lachlan Swamps Tinker's Well Waterloo Swamp Australian Wood Pipe Company Sydney Catchment Authority Busby, John Hickson, Robert Moriarty, Edward Orpen de Burgh, Ernest Anderson Fountain Botany Reservoir Botany Swamps Scheme Bunnerong Dam Busby's Bore Busby's Bore Fountain Cataract Dam Centennial Park Reservoir No.1 Chatswood Reservoirs Cooks River dam Crown Street reservoir Engine Pond Hudson Brothers' Temporary Scheme Liverpool Weir Lower Prospect Canal Macquarie Place Drinking Fountain Mill Pond Nepean Dam Paddington Reservoir Petersham reservoir Pipehead Potts Hill Reservoir No.1 Potts Hill Reservoir No.2 Prospect Raw Water Pumping Station Prospect Reservoir Prospect Water Filtration Plant Ryde Pumping Station Sydenham drainage pit and pumping station No.001 Sydney Desalination Plant Upper Canal Upper Nepean Scheme Warragamba dam Woronora Dam 6 foot pipeline built as part of the network to ensure supply of water to Sydney c1888 6 foot pipeline built as part of the network to ensure supply of water to Sydney c1888 Abutment Aqueduct near Campbelltown c1890 Backyards, Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900 Botany Pumping Station - interior showing ground floor Botany Pumping Station - interior showing top floor Busby's Bore Busby's Bore c1845 Chatswood Reservoir 1888-91 Constable's cottage & water reservoir, Ryde Hill c1900s Construction of Potts Hill water reservoir c1888 Construction of suspension bridge to carry water pipe across Lane Cove River c1900s Construction of the Chatswood Reservoir 1888-91 Construction of the Engine House at Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Construction of the engine and boiler house at the Ryde Water Pumping Station 1891 Construction of the engine and boiler house at the Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Construction of the suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Construction of the suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Construction of the tank at Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Construction of the tank at Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Construction of the tank at Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Crown Street Reservoir mechanical workshop, Surry Hills c1915 Detail showing the Botany Reservoir from the 'Plan of the Botany and Lachlan Watersheds' 1875 Detail showing the Tank Stream from 'Plan of the town and suburbs of Sydney, August 1822' Drawing of old spear pump dug out of excavation in Wynyard Park Drinking fountain inscribed '1858 Williams Mayor', Loftus Street 1930s Drinking fountain near Fort St School 1924 End of Pipehead Basin c1891 Engine House, Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Engine and Boiler House of the Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Engine room of Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Engineer's cottage and Engine House, Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Engineer's cottage, Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Inside Engine House, Ryde Pumping Station c1891 Inside the Boiler House of the Ryde Water Pumping Station 1891 Inside the Chatswood Reservoir 1888-91 Inside the Engine House of the Ryde Water Pumping Station 1891 Letter. Talbot & Son, Circular Quay, complain of the stench from the closets & urinals under Moore's Steps and ask that they be removed. Cannot be complied with. April 1872 Machinery shed used by workers during construction of water reservoir at Chatswood 1888-91 Making the new sewer in Pitt Street 1857 Nepean Tunnel inlet c1885 Paddington Reservoir Gardens 31 August 2011 Potts Hill no 1 pipeline with a section of the Hudson Brothers' Temporary Scheme fluming at right, 1896 Ryde Water Pumping Station c1891 Shaft No 4 Nepean Tunnel c1883 Side view of the Engine House for the Ryde Water Pumping Station during construction 1891 Sketch map of the waterpipes laid in Sydney at June 1844 Sketch map of the waterpipes laid in Sydney at June 1844 South western outfall siphon and Mascot Pumping Station at the mouth of Cooks River, Botany Bay 1916 St Jude's Fountain, corner of Church Street and Alison Road, Randwick December 2015 Steam driven pump, Crown Street Pumping Station, Surry Hills c1915 Suspension bridge across Lane Cove River carrying water pipe 1890 Suspension bridge carrying water pipes across the Lane Cove River 1890 Sydney Water Supply Prospect Hill c1890 The Anderson Fountain in Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta June 2015 The Pumping House, Botany c1885 The Sydney Water Supply, May 1895 The well at Brislington, Parramatta March 2014 View across Mill Pond to the Botany Water Works 1890 View of the bridge over the Tank Stream c1803 View of the dam over the river at Liverpool c1857 Warragamba weir under construction 1939 Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood in the early 20th century, interviewed 1986
