The well is 15 metres in diametre and 20 metres deep, and contained large seives to remove debris from the water, which originates from Loch Katrine, some 30 miles to the north, before it entered the pipes supplying Glasgow itself. While this well is no longer in use, the same basic principles are still used to remove unwanted debris from Glasgow's water supply to this day.
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The giant Victorian cast iron straining well at the Craigmaddie Reservoir near Glasgow. Part of the city's water system, it was built in 1896 by Glenfield Company Limited, a Hydraulic Engineering company based in Kilmarmock (you can still see their name above the entrance), and it remained in use until 2007.
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Iron Bones
I nearly walked straight past it. You’re on the South Bank, dodging cyclists, and there’s this railway bridge overhead that most people treat as a ceiling to hurry under. But look up and the underside of Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a riot of riveted iron gir...
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Iron Bones
I nearly walked straight past it. You’re on the South Bank, dodging cyclists, and there’s this railway bridge overhead that most people treat as a ceiling to hurry under. But look up and the underside of Blackfriars Railway Bridge is a riot of riveted iron girders fanning out like the ribs of some enormous mechanical whale. I switched to black and white because the colour version was fighting the composition; stripping it back let the geometry do the talking.
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However, there are more just a few feet away, which I hadn't spotted before, that have been preserved and are still in place (bittom photo - the two lines of brown oblongs between the new tarmac and the stone setts). If you want to have a look at them yourself, they're by the steps leading down to Clifton Street.
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I posted a week or so ago about 1850s wooden cobbles which have been uncovered during road resurfacing on Woodlands Terrace in Glasgow. The top photo is one I took of them in 2023, but all these ones are now gone as they were destroyed when the old road surface was removed and the new one laid (middle photo).
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The Union Bridge in Glasgow. This was the site of the first railway bridge across the Clyde. The original bridge was build in the 1860s, but the current one dates from the 1890s.
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