How it might look
The images show the glass and timber extension to the rear of the existing concrete structure. View from the rear, facing the woods The front will look much as it has since 1943
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The Old Reservoir - serendipity
The Old Reservoir, as we will call it, just outside Old Dalby began life in 1943 as a water storage tank. I am pretty sure that, in the wartime, it would only have been built for military purposes. The military presence near Old Dalby was the Central Ordnance Depot, Old Dalby , built in 1940 under the oversight of my father, Major-General 'Bill' Williams, then Director of Warlike Stores in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The Old Dalby depot was conceived as a motor transport depot as an offshoot of the Army Centre for Mechanisation at Chilwell, just north of nearby Nottingham. Before it could fulfil this function it was altered into a depot for heavy guns, machine tools and large equipment such as Bailey Bridges. It was commanded by Brigadier Bob Hiam, who joined the RAOC from Dunlops for the duration of the war. Hiam would cross the channel just after D Day to set up an Advance Ordnance Depot just outside Caen, which then moved, following the advance, to Antwerp. The Ol...
First meeting with Brendan at Hayward Mcmullan architects
Great first proper meeting with Brendan of architects HaywardMcMullen to revise the plans a bit and talk detail!