View from ESE showing part of S front of W part

Description View from ESE showing part of S front of W part

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 713041

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clydesmill (Clyde's Mill) Power Station, Glasgow (Cambuslang), South Lanarkshire This power station was established in about 1903 by the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co, one of the area electrical supply companies set up in the early 1900s. It was probably expanded to cope with wartime demand. In 1927 it was adopted as a 'selected' station under the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme. This view shows the more modern of the two boiler-houses at the station with in the foreground one of the openings between the railway tracks though which hopper wagons discharge coal into the bunkers from which the boilers are fed. Clyde's Mill was from 1927 to 1948 run by the Central Electricity Board, and then by the British Electricity Authority until 1954. Thereafter it was operated by the South of Scotland Electricity Board. Apart from a peak-load gas-turbine installation it was closed in the 1970s and dismantled in 1982. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/58/14

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