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2013 |
Cambridge Water becomes part of South Staffordshire Water Plc |
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2011 |
Cambridge Water sold by HSBC, which was acting as a custodian owner, to South Staffordshire Plc |
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2004 |
Cambridge Water sold to Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings |
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1999 |
Union Fenosa take over Cambridge Water Company Group |
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1996 |
On April 2, 1996 the company was re-registered at Cambridge Water PLC |
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1994 |
The Thetford pipeline became operations and a new reservoir at Madingley was completed |
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1991 |
Water was restricted for the first time ever as a result of the three year drought |
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1990 |
Privatisation of the water industry brought wide ranging new regulations |
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1989 |
From October 1989 all new connections were metered |
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1985 - 1987 |
The majority of the voting stock was acquired by the University, directors, staff and other local supporters of the company |
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1976 |
Throughout the 1976 drought, the company was able to continue with a plentiful supply of water, without the restrictions imposed on other areas |
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1963 |
On April 1, the company was required by Parliament to take over the water supply responsibilities of five local authorities and two bulk supply joint water boards |
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1955 |
Two more pumping stations were opened – Great Wilbraham in 1956 and Babraham in 1961 |
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1941 |
Fulbourn pumping station was opened |
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1938 |
A two million gallon reservoir was constructed at Lime Kiln Hill |
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1935 |
The company was one of the first to introduce water softening voluntarily |
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1921 |
Fleam Dyke pumping station opened |
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1903 |
The company sought statutory powers to sterilise the water. The House of Lords refused consent |
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1890 |
Fulbourn pumping station was opened and a second reservoir built |
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1883 |
Additional wells were sunk at Cherry Hinton |
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1866 |
The company extended its area of supply to include the parishes of Girton, Great Shelford, Fulbourn, Madingley, Histon and Impington |
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1860 |
Supplies had been laid to 1500 premises and the company paid its first ever dividend of 1% |
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1855 |
The original waterworks at Cherry Hinton was opened on October 23 |
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1853 |
The Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Act received the Royal Assent on June 14, 1853. This set up a company to supply fresh water to the town and university as a commercial enterprise |
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1852 |
Vice Chancellor Dr Richard Okes was instrumental in organising “a good honest company” to supply the town with water |
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1610 |
The University and Town constructed a channel from Nine Wells to the outskirts of the town, named after Thomas Hobson |
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1546 |
Henry VIII granted the pipe to Trinity College, feeding the fountain in The Great Court and a tap outside the Great Gate |
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1325 |
Monks of the Franciscan order laid a lead water pipe some 1.5 miles long from natural springs off what is now Madingley Road, in Cambridge to their monastery |