Garshake Reservoir

Introduction

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Garshake Reservoir

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 23 Dec 2011

For further details, see another contributor's earlier photograph: Image For two distant views, one taken when the reservoir was still in use, and the other 21 years later, see Image and Image The present photograph was taken from the northern corner of the fence that surrounds the disused reservoir. As a check on view direction, a small double bump at the centre of the skyline is Dumbowie Hill, its more pointed SE summit behind and just to the left of its more rounded NW one: http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/266 In one of his "Streetwise" features in the Lennox Herald newspaper (issue of 28th July 2006), Billy Scobie records that a German sea-mine was discovered embedded in the silt in this reservoir in 1982.

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