Salt and Pepper

Sunset behind the Goole docks water towers that are known locally as the Salt and Pepper pots.

The 1885 cylindrical tower is of good quality red brick, laid in English bond. It supports a 30ft diameter cast iron header tank inside its upper drum, capable of storing 30,000 gallons of water. The maximum water level of the tank is 143ft above ground level. It is listed Grade II.

The 1927 reinforced concrete water tower was designed by engineer Edward John Silcock (1862-1953) of 10 Park Row, Leeds, to replace the supply from the neighbouring "pepper pot" tower. The new tower was constructed by Harold Arnold & Sons Ltd of Printing Office Street, Doncaster, for Goole Urban District Council. Its tanks hold 690,000 gallons of high quality drinking water for supplying the population of Goole (estimated around 20,000 people, 2017). It cost £21,310 to construct and went into service on 23rd February 1927 and was Grade II listed in September 1987.