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Glasgow Aqueduct
Unknown, 1879, Photograph
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Glasgow Aqueduct
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29040
Title
Glasgow Aqueduct
Description
Image of a stone aqueduct spanning a small valley. The valley is lined by two dirt tracks and on one of these in front of the aqueduct structure stands a group of men and a horse and cart.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1879
Size
12.0 cm x 16.1cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Due to a lack of clean, safe water available to the city, the town council of Glasgow charged the engineer John Frederic Bateman to build a 35 mile aqueduct from Loch Katrine in Stirlingshire to a small reservoir at Milngavie just outside the city. This system would, using only gravity, carry the estimated 50,000,000 gallons of fresh water needed daily to quench Glasgow's thirst. After 4 years of construction the system was opened by Queen Victoria in 1859 and, despite minor alterations and upgrades is still providing Glasgow's water supply over 150 years later proving that when the architect said 'I leave you a work which I believe, will...remain perfect for ages...' he was correct.
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Reservoirs of Edinburgh
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