A visit to Carshalton Water Tower and Hermitage

Just over 300 years ago a very rich man on the verge of bankruptcy built a grand house and a water tower. Three hundred years later, both still exist, and you can go inside the water tower, but not the house.Sir John Fellowes was the man, who made his fortune as a director of the South Sea Company, and in 1716 acquired, through some slightly iffy tax dodging means, a house in Carshalton. This was rebuilt into a grand new Georgian style with an artificial lake in front. And then in 1721, he commi