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View from SSE showing part of SE front

SC 686190

Description View from SSE showing part of SE front

Date 8/1968

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 686190

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dam, Clatteringshaws Loch, Dumfries & Galloway This dam was built in the early 1930s as part of the Galloway hydro-electric power scheme. It was constructed to impound a reservoir, Clatteringshaws Loch, which supplied water to Glenlee Power Station in the first instance, and ultimately to Tongland Power Station, the lowest one of the scheme. This shows part of the dam from the south-east. This central section acts as a spillway when the water level in Clatteringshaws is higher than normal. The dam is of mass concrete construction, and is the largest of the five dams on the scheme. This was the first large hydro-electric scheme for public supply in Scotland, and its success led directly to the large-scale investment in hydro-electricity made in the Highlands in the post-World War II period. The Galloway scheme is still operating very satisfactorily. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/23/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686190

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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