Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
There doesn’t seem to be a thread about Birmingham’s role in the British Empire. So here is a start with a firm that, as far as I can see, slipped the net, being Messrs Walsh, Lovett and Co. at 10 Ludgate Hill.
In the Birmingham Daily Post of April 1892 they report the successful opening of the Bombay waterworks from Tansa to Bombay. It says that Messrs Walsh, Lovett and Co. are mentioned amongst the contractors, but to give them justice they add that they carried out by far the greater part of the gigantic engineering work. This included the conduits, earthworks, tunnels, iron bridges and aqueducts, as well as the complete laying of 50,000 tons of 48in cast iron mains.
Messrs Glover were the contractors for the dam and the reservoir only, and Messrs Walsh and Lovett executing the works from that point on to Bombay.
Other reports indicate that the construction of duct from Tansa Dam to Ghat Cooper started in 1886...“It will be of interest that this enormous work was undertaken by a Birmingham firm that our townsman Mr. T. Bernard Hall was chief engineer, and had the entire direction and control of the work in India.”
In 2020 the Mumbai News reports on the repair of the century-old Tansa pipeline at Lower Parel. “The most challenging aspect of repairing the leak is that this water main is buried over 25 to 30 feet under the ground, with a British era storm water drain, a sewage line, and TATA Power’s high voltage power line running right above it.”
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In the Birmingham Daily Post of April 1892 they report the successful opening of the Bombay waterworks from Tansa to Bombay. It says that Messrs Walsh, Lovett and Co. are mentioned amongst the contractors, but to give them justice they add that they carried out by far the greater part of the gigantic engineering work. This included the conduits, earthworks, tunnels, iron bridges and aqueducts, as well as the complete laying of 50,000 tons of 48in cast iron mains.
Messrs Glover were the contractors for the dam and the reservoir only, and Messrs Walsh and Lovett executing the works from that point on to Bombay.
Other reports indicate that the construction of duct from Tansa Dam to Ghat Cooper started in 1886...“It will be of interest that this enormous work was undertaken by a Birmingham firm that our townsman Mr. T. Bernard Hall was chief engineer, and had the entire direction and control of the work in India.”
In 2020 the Mumbai News reports on the repair of the century-old Tansa pipeline at Lower Parel. “The most challenging aspect of repairing the leak is that this water main is buried over 25 to 30 feet under the ground, with a British era storm water drain, a sewage line, and TATA Power’s high voltage power line running right above it.”
Mumbai: BMC to repair century-old Tansa water pipeline at Lower Parel
The most challenging aspect of repairing the leak is that this water main is buried over 25 to 30 feet under the ground, with a British era storm water drain, a sewage line, and TATA Power’s high voltage power line running right above it
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Walsh, Lovett and Co. - Wikipedia
Image Tansa Dam...
