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Nerys Tunnicliffe of Glasgow City Archives
Visit to Inlet Tunnel, Loch Katrine by the Glasgow Corporation Water Committee and Commissioners, 24 August 1876 during one of their inspections of the site. Pic: Glasgow City Archives
THE Loch Katrine Water Works were officially opened on October 14, 1855 by Queen Victoria.
For its time it was a very ambitious scheme to increase and improve Glasgow ‘s water supply, aiming to provide 50 million gallons of water in any one day.
Until the early 1800s the city’s main water supply was a collection of ancient public wells, the River Clyde and streams. The quality of water from these sources was dubious. One 1848 report, now in the City Archives, states that ‘fluids’ from the sewers were likely flowing into at least two old wells, and lists other wells including those at George Street, Glassford Street and St Vincent Street, as ‘impure’. The quantit ....

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