Cornovia PostcardsBrig o' Turk, Loch Katrine, Perthshire, 1906 - Millar & Lang Postcard
This Is My GlasgowA sculpted illustration from Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake on the Stewart Memorial Fountain in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park. It features Ellen Douglas (in the middle), the minstrel Allan-Bane (on the left) and Ellen's spaniel, Lufra, (on the right), with Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, the spurce of Glasgow's drinking water, on the background.
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Personifications of Loch Katrine (right) and Glasgow (left), with Glasgow Cathedral in the background on the 1872 Stewart Memorial Fountain in the city's Kelvingrove Park.
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The Mugdock Reservoir end of the Loch Katrine Aqueduct which uses gravity to transport fresh water around 30 miles from Loch Katrine in the Trossachs to Glasgow. It opened in 1855, and is still an integral part of the Glasgow water supply to this day.
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Cornovia Postcards (Old)Loch Katrine, Stirlingshire, c.1905 - Blum & Degen Postcard
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Andy BelseyLoch Katrine on a very still and frosty morning. The water was like a mirror, and all that could be heard was songs of the birds looking forward to the coming Spring.
These ventilation shafts mark an underground section of the route close to the Mugdock and Craigmaddie Reserviors where the water was held before being delivered to the city itself. The same system is still used to supply the majority of the city's freshwater to this day, more than 150 years after it was created.
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Ventilation shafts for the Loch Katrine Aqueduct at Mugdock Country Park on the outskirts of Glasgow. Starting in 1855, the Glasgow Corporation created a system to bring freshwater from Loch Katrine, 36 miles to the north, into the city itself. The system was designed so that no pumping was required and instead water was solely delivered across the whole distance by gravity alone.
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Autumn today reflected in the mirror-calm waters of Mugdock Reservoir on the outskirts of Glasgow. Built in 1856, this reservoir created as part of a system designed during the Victorian era to provide clean, fresh water from Loch Katrine, around forty miles away in the hills of the Trossachs, to Glasgow. The same system still provides the city with water to this day.
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The Craigmaddie Reservoir end of the Loch Katrine Aqueduct which uses gravity to transport fresh water around 30 miles from Loch Katrine in the Trossachs to Glasgow. The first such aqueduct was opened in 1855, with a second being added in 1885, and they still supply the majority of the city's water to this day.