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By 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 ....
Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Pic: Glasgow City Archives The Glasgow Botanic Gardens represent more than 200 years of flourishing flora at the heart of the city. The famous landmark was founded on March 24, 1817, by Thomas Hopkirk, a distinguished Glasgow botanist. Hopkirk donated his own collection to form the basis of the gardens with the original site located at the Sandyford side of Sauchiehall Street. Owned and run by the Royal Botanical Institution of Glasgow, the Gardens have shared a close relationship with the University of Glasgow since their foundation, providing plant supplies for University classes. Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Pic: Glasgow City Archives ....
Chimney sweep. Picture: Glasgow City Archives DO YOU remember the old chimney sweeps, or the lamplighters, going about their work as dusk fell on the city? Did you buy a bunch of blooms from the flower seller on the street corner, or rush to the rag-and-bone man when he turned up outside your tenement? Times Past is looking for your memories of Glasgow’s long-lost occupations – what jobs did your parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents do that are no longer around? Author John Keeman, who has published his city childhood memoir, In the Shadow of the Crane, recalls his first job, aged around nine, working for the coalman. ....