View from SSE showing E front and part of S front
SC 717926
Description View from SSE showing E front and part of S front
Date 10/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717926
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bonnington Power Station, South Lanarkshire This power station was opened in 1927 by the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co Ltd as part of the first large hydro-electric generating scheme for public supply in Britain. The other station is at Stonebyres further downstream. Both derive their power from natural falls on the river Clyde. This shows the station from the south east. The water is channelled from a weir above Bonnington Linn through riveted-steel pipes, out of sight to the right, into turbines in the basement of the station, with alternators on the level above. This scheme proved very successful, and encouraged investment in the Galloway scheme of the mid 1930s, and of the first Highland hydro-electric project, the Tummel scheme of 1934. The Clyde Valley stations, with new machinery, is still in use. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/6/26
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