Burncrooks reservoir

[Flipper]

This is the club hut of Queen Elizabeth Angling Club. A hut that yoda or a hobbit would be proud of.



This is a view of the reservoir with a 'tardis' like thing in the water.



Any ideas what it is?

Thats Duncolm in the background.

[Snapshot]

Whereabouts is the hut - do you have a multimap or google map URL for it?

I'm curious... I reckon this could be an interesting photo, especially at dawn or sunset....

[Flipper]

Here's a multimap URL

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=55.9845&lon=-4.429&scale=25000&icon=x

[maxpower]

That thing in the water looks familar, I think there's something similar in a reservoir or loch near Barrhead. (a quick map search tells me it might be the Balgray Reservoir)

Might be something completely different as I only drove past it once about a year ago, but it was definately some kind of 'tower' in the water with a small pier going out to it.

[Snapshot]

Fantastic Flipper, thank you very much!

If I get shots like the one I'm thinking of, then I'll post em here....


Alan
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[HollowHorn]

This is the one at Barrhead:

[Flipper]

Interesting. Very pagoda like.

[maxpower]

That's the one I saw.

Anyone actually know what these things are?

[Apollo]

It's a reservoir, they had to house the controls somewhere handy in the days before automation

Don't know if there are any funtional ones left nowadays. As you can see from the pics, the access bridges are all stacked up with access denial measures. Any of those I've been able to get get close enough to have been smashed up be vandals, or the gear's been stripped out since they're generally in relatively isolated places.

I got some pics (non-dig) of a larger one in Wales years ago, using a long lens, but even that was pretty beat up.

[Ally Doll]

Maybe it's to guard the plug hole?

[Apollo]

Pictures a Monty Python/Terry Gilliam hand descending from the sky and pulling it out

[macca734]

Maybe it's to guard the plug hole?

Thats exactly what they're for. I'm pretty sure they're sluice towers and that they go right down to the bottom of the reservoir. It was the old fashioned way of controlling the outfall.

If you can have a look for the Hoover Dam ones in Lake Mead, Nevada, just outside Vegas. Fucking hooj they are!

I'm outta here. I have a pathological fear of large bodies of water, more so large bodies of water with inescapable mechanisms designed to suck you under. Strathy Park Loch with those almost clinical looking outfalls covered in slimy blanket weed freaks me out. Signs showing an icon of someone drowning dont help much.

[crusty_bint]

I totally get where you're coming from... first (and last!) memory of being on a boat over "dark water" was the Calmac ferry to Dunoon and fuck i shit myself! Suffice to say I've stuck to cars and planes since.... I'd rather instantaneous death at the hands of a dashboard or the possibility of a stress-indeuced hert-attack while plunging from 1000 feet than that deep dark wet fate!

...anywho...back to your topic... aye am pished... again.

[macca734]

I totally get where you're coming from... first (and last!) memory of being on a boat over "dark water" was the Calmac ferry to Dunoon and fuck i shit myself! Suffice to say I've stuck to cars and planes since.... I'd rather instantaneous death at the hands of a dashboard or the possibility of a stress-indeuced hert-attack while plunging from 1000 feet than that deep dark wet fate!

...anywho...back to your topic... aye am pished... again.

Dark water for me isnt the open sea. For me its old slipways into docks, disused canal jetties with crumbling supports, old locks and THE ABSOLUTE WORST is stairs dissappearing below water level.

I know the logical part of my brain tells me that tidal ebb and flow means the stairs will be covered by water blah blah blah but the scared part of my brain is just screaming "WRONG!!!"

[soapy]

heres the club website
http://www.qeacprivatetroutfishing.co.uk/index.html