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Glasgow, 35 Dumbarton Road, Partick Sewage Pumping Station
Sewage Works (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, 35 Dumbarton Road, Partick Sewage Pumping Station
Classification Sewage Works (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 150948
Site Number NS56NE 1081
NGR NS 56448 66442
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/150948
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Partick Sewage Pumping Station, 33-35 Dumbarton Road, 1904, Alexander Beith (A B) McDonald
Richly carved red sandstone shell, hygienic white-glazed brick within. Glasgow was responsible for draining 104 square kilometres (40 square miles) around the city.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS56NE 1081 56448 66442
Sewage Pumping Station [NAT]
OS 1:1250 map, 1975.
For sewer pipe bridge across the River Kelvin (adjacent to SE), see NS56NE 4873.
Partick Sewage Pumping Station, 35 Dumbarton Road, opened in 1904 by Glasgow Corporation. An ornate Renaissance red sandstone building with a large single-storey engine house which [formerly] contained three inverted vertical triple-expansion pumping engines with plunger pumps. At the rear is a lower single storey boiler house with a water tanbk in the roof, a fine octagonal chimney stalk and four bays of stables. The steam pumps were replaced by electric c. 1960.
J R Hume 1974.
