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the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Waterworks for the purpose of providing a sufficient and constant supply of good and wholesome water for domestic, manufacturing and other purposes. The area to be supplied used only the River Tame. The initial supply was intermittent. In 1849, the corporation made an agreement with the company for a ...
Full text of judgment. Keywords. Negligence, nuisance, reasonable foreseeability. Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Company (1856) 11 Ex Ch 781 [1] concerns reasonableness in the law of negligence. It is famous for its classic statement of what negligence is and the standard of care to be met. [2]
Caban-coch Reservoir c. 1963. / 52.27222°N 3.68889°W / 52.27222; -3.68889. The Elan Valley Reservoirs ( Welsh: Cronfeydd Cwm Elan) are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales. The reservoirs, which were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide ...
Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States.It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. After closing, it became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved and restored for public use.
3 km (1.9 miles) 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Bartley Reservoir is a reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. [1] It covers 460,000 square metres (5,000,000 sq ft). The reservoir is about 1.05 kilometres (0.65 mi) long, over 450 metres (1,480 ft) wide, and about 18 metres (60 ft) deep ...
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. [1] Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii) It was built by Birmingham Corporation Water Department to designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.
World War II. David Johnson Vann (August 10, 1928 – June 9, 2000) was mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. [1] Vann was born in Randolph County, Alabama. [2] He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1950, and from the university's law school in 1951. He served as clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, and was present in the ...
Birmingham ( / ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm / BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910, down 2% from the 2020 census, [3] making it Alabama's third-most populous city after ...