View from SSW showing part of SE front

Description View from SSW showing part of SE front

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 769993

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Hydraulic pumping station, Nos 321-5 High Street, Glasgow This shows the north-eastern section of the station, which was the pump house. Behind the castellated parapet is a pitched roof with a glazed roof-ridge skylight with ventilating panels. The towers at the far end contained hydraulic accumulators, which evened out the load on the pumps. This station was completed at about the same time as electricity was proving a better way of transmitting power than water under pressure, but the system lasted until 1964. The pumps were originally steam powered, but were latterly electrically driven. The buildings have now all been demolished. This station was built in 1893-5 to pump water under pressure through mains to customers in the city who used hydraulic power to operate lifts, hoists, cranes and presses. It was owned by the Corporation Water Department, and was designed under the direction of their engineer, J M Gale. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/57/17

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap