View from ENE showing NE and part of SE fronts
SC 769997
Description View from ENE showing NE and part of SE fronts
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 769997
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hydraulic pumping station, Nos 321-5 High Street, Glasgow This shows the complex from the north-east. The two towers housed hydraulic accumulators, which stored water under pressure to even out the load on the pumping engines. Behind them is the pump house, and on the right is part of the office block. 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 H35/70/57/20
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