3-052-786 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Llandudno new waterworks: Llandudno and Little Orme's Head, [Wales ], 1880. 'The Prince of Wales turning on the water...the popular and fashionable marine watering-place of Llandudno...has now provided itself with public works for the supply of fresh water, and these were opened by the Prince of Wales last week...The works have cost nearly £40,000. The water is brought fifteen miles from two of the lakes in the Snowdon mountain range, one lake being 1700 ft. above the sea level. Four miles from this source of supply, at Llwyngaew, there is an artificial service reservoir, from which the water is conveyed by Doulton earthenware pipes, of nine inches diameter, which are laid some miles along the bed of the Conway river...Mr. Marks, C.E., engineer in charge of the works, was presented to his Royal Highness, whom he instructed to turn a small handle, by which a fountain was set playing, in token that the water then began to flow into the town. A silver épergne, hearing a suitable inscription, was given to the Prince as a memorial of this occasion, by the Llandudno Commissioners and the townspeople'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.