General view from NW showing power station [on the left] and sawmill [on the right], with weir in the foreground. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 867007
Description General view from NW showing power station [on the left] and sawmill [on the right], with weir in the foreground. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date 1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 867007
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Power station and sawmill, Pollok House, Pollokshaws, Glasgow In the late 19th and early 20th century it was fairly common in Scotland to install water turbines instead of water wheels, using existing water supply systems. Turbines were more compact, more efficient, and required less maintenance. They were particularly well suited to generating electricity. This view shows the weir on the White Cart Water which supplied water, initially to the sawmill on the right, which was fitted with a turbine in 1888, and then to a power station, the building to the left with circular windows. This had a turbine, and an auxiliary oil engine, the cooling tanks of which are on the front. The sawmill served the Pollok Estate. The turbine, of the 'Holyoake' type, drove the sawbench and other machinery. The power station supplied electricity to Pollok House, and was presumably built when the house was extended in c. 1912. The turbine was by Carrick and Ritchie, Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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