Worthing Water-Works, 1858. '...one of the most favourable and successful examples of sanitary works executed under the authority of the Public Health the population [of Worthing] increased, its drainage, which from the beginning was without plan or arrangement, necessarily proved deficient. The sewers poured out their contents upon the shore, rendering a resort to the beautiful Esplanade during the ebb of the tide exceedingly water-tower, engine-house, and designed by Robert Rawlinson, Esq., The water-tower has a total elevation of 110 fee
Worthing Water-Works, 1858. '...one of the most favourable and successful examples of sanitary works executed under the authority of the Public Health the population [of Worthing] increased, its drainage, which from the beginning was without plan or arrangement, necessarily proved deficient. The sewers poured out their contents upon the shore, rendering a resort to the beautiful Esplanade during the ebb of the tide exceedingly water-tower, engine-house, and designed by Robert Rawlinson, Esq., The water-tower has a total elevation of 110 the adjoining engine-house a well has been sunk in the chalk to a depth of seventy it gushes an abundant supply of the purest water, 143 degrees of hardness, which is lifted by the engine into a cast-iron tank at the top of the tower, and thence distributed into all the houses in the town. The 110,000 gallons'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
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