"No one would have believed in the middle years of the twentieth century that this city was being watched ..."

These rather alien-looking mid-20th Century water towers in Garthamlock in the east of Glasgow always remind me of the opening lines from the War of the Worlds (and for obvious reasons, I always hear them said in the voice of Richard Burton!).

Garthamlock and Craigend Water Towers in the east of Glasgow.

Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these are classic examples of post-war architecture and reinforced concrete construction. At more than 100 feet high and capable of holding one million gallons of water, the Garthamlock tower is the largest water tower in the UK.

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