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View from ESE showing SSE and ENE fronts of no 289
SC 770020
Description View from ESE showing SSE and ENE fronts of no 289
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770020
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hydraulic pumping station, Nos 321-5 High Street, Glasgow This shows the tenement at the south-west corner of the complex, provided for the workers in the station. The station is to the right. The buildings were faced in red sandstone, and the castellated treatment was designed to fit into this most historic part of Glasgow. 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 H35/70/57/16
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