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Hungryside Bridge, Forth and Clyde Canal, Lifting Bridge View from SW
D 58832 CN
Description Hungryside Bridge, Forth and Clyde Canal, Lifting Bridge View from SW
Date 29/9/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 58832 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 792991
Scope and Content Control cabin, Lifting Bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, Hungryside Bridge, East Dunbartonshire, from south-west This shows the control cabin of the lifting bridge which was built in the mid-1930s by Sir William Arrol & Company. The ashlar-built cabin has a bricked-up doorway and one of the windows has been covered with a metal plate. The brick-built pier to the right of the white-painted railing is a modern replacement for a stone-built one. The controls for tilting the bridge were located in this cabin although the height of the bridge above the water meant that most canal boats could pass underneath without the bridge having to be opened. The lifting bridge replaced a drawbridge which spanned the canal slightly to the west. It was badly damaged when it was struck by a boat in 1929. The Forth & Clyde Canal was built between 1768 and 1790. It could have been completed sooner but funds ran out in 1777 and more money was not found by the government until 1784. John Smeaton (1724-92) was the designer and first chief engineer for the project. He was replaced in 1777 by Robert Mackell (d.1779), and in 1785 Robert Whitworth (1734-99) took over the building of the final section of the canal from Glasgow. When the canal was completed in 1790 it ran from the River Forth at Grangemouth, in the east, to Bowling on the River Clyde in the west of Scotland. The canal was linked to Edinburgh when the Union Canal was opened in 1822. The Forth & Clyde Canal was closed in 1963 and the Union Canal in 1965 and the construction of new roads meant that it was impossible for boats to travel along the full length of these watercourses. However, the £84.5m Millennium Link project enabled the canals to reopen in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
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