Identity area
Reference code
AR128/3
Title
Date(s)
- Mar - Oct 1971 (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
32 photographs
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Scope and content
32 black and white photographs taken by Ronald Arthur Huitson (1916 - 1986) and his wife Muriel (1915 - 1987) of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society during the course of the reservoirs demolition and the gutting of the water tower.
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Conditions governing access
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Finding aids
The photographs of Park Hill reservoir and water tower are detailed in Park Hill Reservoir and Water Tower: a photographic record made by Ronald Arthur Huitson [1916 - 1986] in 1971 by Paul W.Sowan. (Croydon Bibliographies for Regional Survey 117, CNHSS, Mar 2005). A copy is available in the Local Studies Library.