Window to the Past: EWS in the southside

In this print we can better make out the Emergency Water Supply sign on the wall. The tanks themselves were oblong, with walls assembled from three-foot square pressedsteel flanged sections that could be bolted together to form containers of various capacities.

At first they were unprotected, but drowning scares made a heavy wire mesh covering necessary.

This happened because after a year or two, apart from the more obvious hazard of the temptation to swim in warm weather, without being used they became a habitat for wildlife, minnows and the like.

Image courtesy of Pollokshaws Heritage Group, holding weekly meetings on Mondays at 1pm in the parish hall — all welcome along.