A big thanks to Miles Moulding for his OK to reproduce his recent email below. Miles gives a very confident, convincing and detailed explanation of the original purpose of the Torwood Blue Water Pool. Flooded downcast shaft – the water…
I was fairly sure I had cleared most of the weed from the arch by the time I lowered the camera into the pool last Sunday. Clarity of the water was excellent. Previous still photos had been pot luck as…
About a week ago, I cleared as much weed from the inside of the arch as I could — not easy when you’re working blind. Yesterday I tested my new makeshift underwater light with two car headlight bulbs and a…
Armed with an underwater camera, I had hoped to find an arched-roof tunnel going as far as the eye can see and descending at an angle of about thirty degrees in the direction of Quarter Colliery. A similar arrangement can…
Pure water has no colour. Water can contain minute suspended particles that affect the colour. Water draining from peaty ground may have a slightly yellow hew. Water containing a fine suspension of clay particles has a milky or opal blue…
It was May 2010 when David Hunter of Torwood announced in the comments section that he had found an identical pool at Carbrook. David and his wife Stephanie had been researching Carbrook House. As they walked the grounds, they spotted…
Known by Denny folk as The Blue Pool and by Plean folk as The Blue Water — I created a hybrid title, The Torwood Blue Water Pool. After two years of investigating and a lot of phone calls and interviews,…
My visit to the National Archives in Edinburgh drew a blank. All the interestingly named items in-house were just the same old ordnance survey maps with some coloured boundary lines showing who owned some small piece of land at a…
I have not yet had any response from Carron Phoenix or the Forestry Commission but many thanks to Scottish Water for their speedy response and the research by their legal department. We have nothing in the immediate area either by…
It’s almost two months since I visited the Blue Pool and cleared some hairy weed from the brickwork and managed to photograph a six inch pipe just as the sun was setting and the deeper water was still cloudy. Today…
A recent conversation with the current owners of Todhill Farm (east of Torwood Castle), revealed that the Blue Pool may have once been the water supply for Todhill — mmm . . . another one I hear you say —…
This is a customised Google map showing markers for features around the Blue Pool. You can click on the text below the map to enlarge it. The information on each marker will be updated if it becomes available. There is…
My last visit to the pool was 20 September 2009. The water was almost as clear as my previous visit on 31 August but there was no sign of the irregular round blue circle in the centre of the bottom…
We hacked our way through bracken that was two metres tall on a path that was hardly visible but our reward was a clear view of the bottom of the Blue Pool. I did not have a polarising filter with…
I was shooting video at the pool about a month ago (June 2009) and I would now call it the Black Pool. It did not have that magical blue look that I remembered from years ago and you can no…
Eileen Livingston from Plean, Scotland. l can say for sure that the pool doesn’t just fill up with rain water and then evaporate to change levels. l have been up one day and the level has been about 4 feet…
