View from N showing intake into surge tank under construction. Photographic copy of Plate 11B, Volume 198, PA 123.

Description View from N showing intake into surge tank under construction. Photographic copy of Plate 11B, Volume 198, PA 123.

Date c. 2/1926

Collection Scottish Power

Catalogue Number E 24000

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 877757

Scope and Content Bonnington Power Station, Falls of Clyde Hydro-Electric Scheme, Bonnington Tunnel at surge tank end, no date, probably February 1926 Bonnington Power Station has an output of 11 megawatts, and was built in 1926 as part of the Falls of Clyde Scheme. The scheme was developed in part by Sir Edward McColl, who was to gain prominence as one of the most brilliant engineers involved in hydro-electric works in the north of Scotland. The excavation for the surge tank above Bonnington Power Station, with the end of the tunnel leading to the weir on the Clyde from which the water for the station will be drawn. At the top of the bank, on the left, is a concrete mixer, with a chute to slide the concrete down to wheel barrows. There were two power stations in the Falls of Clyde scheme, this larger one at Bonnington, above Lanark, and a smaller one at Stonebyres, below that town. Both are still in use, though the equipment in them has been replaced. Later schemes in the Highlands and in Galloway were modelled on this one. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Black and White Negative

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