Field Visit
Date 2010
Event ID 881904
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/881904
This aqueduct runs underground and links the intake from the tilting weir with the penstocks leading into the powerhouse below. The Falls of Clyde scheme is an important example of the earliest large scale application of hydroelectric power for public supply in Scotland The scheme consist of two powerhouse each with an associated weir operating as run of the river schemes. All elements of the scheme are design cohesively in a modern classical style which was very influential over later developments such as the Rannoch / Tummel scheme. Buchan & Partners, Engineers, Bound plans and sections of Lanarkshire hydro-electric power schemes near Bonnington and near Nemphlar and Stonebyres Falls (1923-1924) NAS Reference, RHP 43551. Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co, 1926; John Hume, 1976; DC Eve, Harnessing the Falls of Clyde: the construction of the Hydro-Electric Scheme, 1924-7; Archive, Issue 14 (1997), 17-27; R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007, 228-9.
