Grudie Bridge Power Station. Photographic copy of section.

Description Grudie Bridge Power Station. Photographic copy of section.

Date c. 1/1948 to 11/1948

Collection Records of Shearer and Annand, architects, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number D 73977 P

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of SA 1940/12/6

Copies SC 778073

Scope and Content Photographic copy of section through main building, Grudie Bridge Power Station, Highland This shows a section of the main building, which includes a turbine hall lit by tall windows, covered by a flat roof covered by 'Anderson's Thermotile roofing'. Cavities below the main building indicate the positions of the turbine machinery. The drawing is executed in ink, and is dated November 1948. Hydro-electric power stations produce electricity by using the power of flowing water to rotate turbines which turn generators. A strong force of running water is therefore vital to their operation. During the construction of the Conon scheme, a large plug of stone was blown out from the side of Loch Fannich, over 25m below the surface. This enabled the completion of a 6.5km-long tunnel to supply the water to the power station, and became known as 'Operation Bathplug'. Grudie Bridge Power Station, designed by architects Shearer & Annand, is part of the Conon Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, built between 1946 and 1961 by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. James Grant Shearer (1881-1962) was responsible for the design of the exterior of the power station, and took care to integrate the structure into the surroundings by careful use of local materials. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Photograph

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