Loch Katrine Reservoir View of sluices at Royal Cottage
SC 556483
Description Loch Katrine Reservoir View of sluices at Royal Cottage
Date 23/9/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556483
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tunnel entrances, Loch Katrine Water Works, Perthshire The Loch Katrine Scheme for supplying water by gravity to Glasgow was designed by JF Bateman in 1853-4 and completed in 1859. A second aqueduct was completed in 1901, and the level of the loch was raised in 1929. This view shows the sluices installed in 1929 when the level of the loch was raised. These hand-operated devices control the flow of water from the loch into the two aqueduct tunnels which lead to the reservoirs at Milngavie, near Glasgow. This was a pioneering long-distance gravitational water-supply scheme, copied later by other municiipalities. It still, as extended in 1901 and 1929, supplies much of Glasgow's water. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/178/4
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