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Hungryside Bridge, Forth and Clyde Canal, Lifting Bridge View from W
D 58836 CN
Description Hungryside Bridge, Forth and Clyde Canal, Lifting Bridge View from W
Date 29/9/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 58836 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 792995
Scope and Content Lifting Bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, Hungryside Bridge, East Dunbartonshire, from west This shows the lifting bridge which was built in the mid-1930s by Sir William Arrol & Company. This steel bridge is supported on ashlar piers and has a plain parapet. The track which runs underneath the bridge is the towpath where horses which were towing barges would have walked. The octagonal window in the pier to the right probably contained part of the mechanism that lifted the bridge. This bridge replaced a drawbridge which spanned the canal slightly to the west and which was badly damaged when it was struck by a boat in 1929. Steam puffers developed in the late 1850s and became the popular mode of transport on the canal because they were quicker than the horse-drawn 'lighters' (barges). 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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