The Galloway Hydro Scheme: Part Two Kendoon, Carsfad and Earlstoun

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For the second part in my series about the Galloway Hydro Scheme, we're moving on downstream from Loch Doon to Kendoon, Carsfad and Earlstoun stations and their lochs. During the tough times of the early 1930s, there was no shortage of men prepared to risk the hard and hazardous conditions to work on the building of the Hydro Scheme.
The problem for them was keeping their jobs...

Sources:

Tunnel and Dam by George Hill : https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.182669

An architectural re-assessment of the Galloway hydro-electric development 1998. Twiname, Alistair.: https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.314637

Dalry Reminiscences Edited by Hilda MacAdam https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.227958

The Galloway Highlands by Dane Love https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.653479

The Inter War Years Published by DG Libraries https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.31768

The Galloway Hydro Scheme on Canmore: https://canmore.org.uk/search/site?SIMPLE_KEYWORD=galloway%2520hydro%2520scheme&site_results_page=1

Great Depression, UK https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2020-21/el20-21_7-1/wjec/KO1_depression_war_and_recovery.pdf

Wiki Great Depression UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=Unemployment%20reached%2070%25%20in%20some,government%20known%20as%20the%20dole.

Great Depression UK https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Depression/

Unemployment during Great Depression UK https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register/unemployment-depression-1930s

Drax overview of pumped storage Hydro schemes https://www.drax.com/pumped-storage-hydro/

Drax talk about the Hydro Scheme: https://www.ice.org.uk/events/past-events-and-recordings/recorded-lectures/galloway-hydro-scheme

Scottish Unemployment during the Great Depression: https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/history-of-unemployment/

Kendoon South Dam on Canmore: https://canmore.org.uk/site/276220/kendoon-loch-south-dam

Images of Dalbeattie from Wiki Commons: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Town_Hall,_Dalbeattie.jpg

Many thanks to Galloway Then and Now for their filming and editing assistance and Dumfries and Galloway Libraries for the books and support.

Intro/outro maps from Google Earth

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