When was it built and where did the water go.? The steelworks in Jarrow ? The chemical works in Hebburn?

What part did the Lakes play in water supply.

Water from the Reservoir was it treated for human consumption?

Did the water it contained come from a borehole?

The water must have been pumped down pipe work under Victoria Road West or Shields Road as it was in earlier days.

That pipe work may probably still there and could have been reused for other purposes.

Was the building on Mill Lane both a pump house and a caretakers home.

I think there were stairs up to the top next to that building and that’s where the main entrance gate was.

The entrance on Victoria Road side had its own gate and I cannot remember there being a footpath from that entrance round to the pump house, maybe there was but overgrown.

When they decided to demolish the structure there must have been a survey carried out and I would assume detailed plans made especially if the land was going to be to be built on.

It’s odd that the housing is sort of around the edge of the Reservoir say on the land where the old embankments were but not on the Reservoir it’s self ? That area unstable and too expensive to stabilise the whole area for buildings.

The buildings are built on where the edges of the Reservoir were.

I doubt that we will ever know.

Allan C.