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Glasgow City Corporation Waterworks, 1885 Aqueduct, Blane 1885 Valve House
Aqueduct (Period Unassigned), Waterworks (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow City Corporation Waterworks, 1885 Aqueduct, Blane 1885 Valve House
Classification Aqueduct (Period Unassigned), Waterworks (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Katrine Scheme
Canmore ID 286385
Site Number NS58SE 6.04
NGR NS 5539 8000
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/286385
- Council Stirling
- Parish Balfron
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS58SE 6.04 5539 8000
Loch Katrine scheme, Blane 1885 valve house (Muylle Id = 334): Dating from 1932 (with the installation of the third syphon pipe), this masonry-built valve house with crenellated detail contains equipment for controlling the flow of water in the aqueduct. There are steps down to the access cellar which houses four valves (numbered E48S, W48S, E48C and W48C) and have the makers name, R Laidlaww and Sons, Engineers, Glasgow (with an illegible date ?1896) on them. R Laidlaw and Son, engineers and contractors, was based at the Alliance Foundry, 47 East Milton Street, Broomhill, Glasgow from 1853-1923). There are four vents outside the valve house marked 'GCWW D.Y.S & Co'.
Information from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out a survey of aqueducts and related structures of the Glasgow
Corporation Loch Katrine Waterworks Scheme, 2006.
