Glasgow, North Canal Bank Street, Pinkston Power Station View from SW with cooling tower in right foreground; the power station still bears traces of its wartime camouflage scheme
SC 599042
Description Glasgow, North Canal Bank Street, Pinkston Power Station View from SW with cooling tower in right foreground; the power station still bears traces of its wartime camouflage scheme
Date 20/5/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 599042
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pinkston Power Station, North Canal Bank Street, Glasgow This power station was built in 1900-1 to supply power to the newly electrified Glasgow Corporation Tramways. It was designed by Harry B Measures, engineer, London. It was re-equipped on several occasions, lastly in 1952-4 when a cooling tower was added. This shows the station from the west, looking along a basin off the Forth and Clyde Canal. The power station with its twin chimneys was externally unaltered, apart from camouflage dating from World War II. The power station initially used the canal for the delivery of coal, and for cooling water. The tops of three sunken canal barges, or 'scows', can be seen beside the wharf in the centre. The power station has since been closed and demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/255/1D
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