Belfast City and District Water Commissioners

Belfast City & District Water Commissioners, 3% redeemable stock, 1895.
The Mourne Wall, Slievenaglogh, 2010.

The Belfast City and District Water Commissioners was a public body in northern Ireland, established by the Belfast Water Act 1840, to improve the supply of water to the expanding city of Belfast. By 1852, the city was suffering a shortfall in supply of almost one million gallons per day.[1][2]

The commissioners were responsible from 1914 for the construction of the Mourne Wall which Northern Ireland Water began to restore in 2017.[3]

Before the Second World War the commissioners purchased a building that is still known as the Water Office.[4][5][6]

In the later twentieth century, responsibility for providing water services was transferred to central government in Northern Ireland and, eventually, to Northern Ireland Water.

References

  1. ↑ Short History of Belfast’s Mourne Water Supply. William R Darby, EARC, 2 November 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Luke Livingstone Macassey (1843 - 1908). Patrick Devlin, Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  3. ↑ 113 years on, work begins to repair the wonder wall of the Mournes. Allan Preston, Belfast Telegraph, 20 May 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  4. ↑ The Water Office. Culture Northern Ireland. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  5. ↑ HB26/50/015. Department for Communities. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Richardson & Owden's Warehouse. Victorian Web, 13 September 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

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