View from WNW showing NW front with no 325 and Barony Church in background

Description View from WNW showing NW front with no 325 and Barony Church in background

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770002

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Hydraulic pumping station, Nos 321-5 High Street, Glasgow This shows the north-east end of the site from the south-west, seen from the top of Cathedral Court, a block of model workmen's dwellings. In the centre is the pump house, with its roof-ridge skylight. The tanks in the foreground are on the roof of the boiler house, and stored water for the pumps and boilers. 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 H35/70/57/25

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770002

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap