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View from WNW showing WNW front of accumulator tower
SC 685848
Description View from WNW showing WNW front of accumulator tower
Date 6/8/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685848
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content 'Four Winds' Hydraulic Power Station, Prince's Dock, Glasgow This dock, originally known as Cessnock Dock, was built for the Clyde Navigation Trust in 1893-7. It had three basins, approached from the River Clyde via an entrance basin large enough for vessels to cant, or turn, and hence known as the canting basin. This shows the hydraulic accumulator tower of main hydraulic pumping station in the north-east corner of the dock, built in 1894 to designs by Burnet, Son & Campbell to supply hydraulic power for the cranes on the quays. A hydraulic accumulator can store power until it is required. The dock, though incomplete, was opened in 1895 by the Prince of Wales, and was thereafter known as Prince's Dock. It declined in use throughout the 1970s, and was eventually closed and infilled. It was the site of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. It is still being redeveloped. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/14/17
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