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Glasgow Corporation Water Works, Mugdock Road, Mugdock Reservoir, James Gale Memorial
Commemorative Monument (20th Century), Waterworks (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow Corporation Water Works, Mugdock Road, Mugdock Reservoir, James Gale Memorial
Classification Commemorative Monument (20th Century), Waterworks (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Milngavie Water Treatment Works
Canmore ID 287649
Site Number NS57NE 63.08
NGR NS 55847 75462
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/287649
- Council East Dunbartonshire
- Parish New Kilpatrick (Bearsden And Milngavie)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Bearsden And Milngavie
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS57NE 63.08 55847 75462
Memorial to J M Gale
An Art-Nouveau-style monument erected in 1904 outside the Milngavie water treatment works in honour of J M Gale, the Glasgow Corporation Water Works engineer. The memorial comprises a bronze plaque and drinking fountain with basin, the former bearing the words, 'In Memory of James M Gale, engineer to the Glasgow Corporation Water Department 1859-1902. The memorial was erected by the employees as a token of respect and esteem, 1904'.
This plaque and drinking fountain, and a roughly circular bronze plaque above (bearing a portrait of the engineer) are mounted on a roughly-hewn rectangular block of granite which itself rests on a plinth of random rubble, at the bottom of which there is a second smaller basin.
Information from RCAHMS (M K Oglethorpe), 2001.
Loch Katrine Scheme, James M Gale Memorial (Muylle Id = 386): In memory of James M Gale.
Information from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out a survey of aqueducts and related structures of the Glasgow
Corporation Loch Katrine Waterworks Scheme, 2006.
