Butterley Spillway Song
Channel: Butterley Spillway
Date: 2012-10-26

Butterley Spillway was built between 1891 and 1906 to carry overflow water from the Butterley Reservoir in the Wessenden Valley near Marsden in West Yorkshire. It is the only Grade II Listed spillway in the UK.

Butterley Spillway has been named by the Victorian Society as one of the top ten at risk listed buildings in the UK in 2012. Yorkshire Water, who own Butterley Reservoir, plan to demolish the unique stone-built structure and create a new concrete-lined spillway in its place.

The threat to Butterley Spillway has inspired Marsden-based musician Eddy Underwood to write this Butterley Spillway Song. In the tradition of the protest song, it pays tribute to the Victorian engineers who built the spillway and questions the corporate motives of Yorkshire Water's plans.

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Photographs, film and editing by David Preston http://www.davidpreston.com/
Design by Christian Shannon http://www.christianshannon.com/

For more music by Eddy Underwood, visit his YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/tomtestestom