Old Photograph Hydroelectric Dam Tunnel Lochaber Scotland

Old photograph of workers building the Hydroelectric Dam Tunnel in Lochaber, Scotland. This was part of a hydroelectric power generation project constructed in the Lochaber area of the western Scottish Highlands after the First World War. Like its predecessor at Kinlochleven, it was intended to provide electricity for aluminium production, this time at Fort William, a little further north. The scheme was initially designed by engineer Charles Meik but after his death in 1923, the scheme’s realisation was left to William Halcrow, by then a partner in the firm originally founded by Meik’s father Thomas Meik. The scheme harnessed the headwaters of the Rivers Treig and Spean and the flood waters of the River Spey, plus a further eleven small rivers burns along the way. The Laggan Dam contained the flow of the Spean in a reservoir, Loch Laggan. A three mile long tunnel then linked this body of water with another reservoir at Loch Treig contained by the Treig dam. From here, the main tunnel, until 1970 the longest water carrying tunnel in the world, 15 miles long and 15 feet in diameter, was driven around the Ben Nevis massif. From the western mountainside, down five massive steel pipes, the water rushed towards the turbines in the power house at the smelting plant.




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Old Photograph Cottage Loch Kinord Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage near Loch Kinord in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Scottish castle, which used to stand on one of the islets of the loch, was first known to have been recorded as a refuge for the Earl of Atholl after the battle of Culblean in 1335. There have been archaeological finds at Loch Kinord including a medieval bronze jug.

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Old Photograph Auchleeks House Glen Errochty Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Auchleeks House and garden in Glen Errochty in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Auchleeks Castle was held by the Clan Robertson from the 1530s but was later replaced by this mansion. They sold the property in 1962 and the garden is occasionally open to the public.



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Old Photograph Dalreoch Lodge Enochdhu Scotland

Old photograph of Dalreoch Lodge in Enochdhu a small village located West of Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Singer Factory Clydebank Scotland

Old photograph of the Singer Factory in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. Singer's Kilbowie Factory, which in 1885 was the largest factory in the world, and had the capacity to manufacture 8,000 sewing machines a week, employed 3,500 people and manufactured sewing machines that were sent around the globe.



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