The Princess Royal
After officially opening the North Devon Water Board’s Prewley water treatment works Her Royal
Highness, The Princess Royal (sister of The Late King George VI and aunt of Queen Elizabeth II) was driven
to the far end of the tunnel. She then walked back through the quarter mile tunnel, 52 feet under Prewley
Down. Her Royal Highness and Ormsby Allhusen, Chairman of the North Devon Water Board emerge from the
tunnel. Behind them L to R: Mr S R Rafferty, Consulting Engineer and Lord Fortescue, Lord Lieutenant of
Devon. 28 June 1952.