Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Forth and Clyde Canal, Auchinstarry Swing Bridge View from East
D 61837 CN
Description Forth and Clyde Canal, Auchinstarry Swing Bridge View from East
Date 29/2/2000
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 61837 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 793022
Scope and Content Auchinstarry Swing Bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, North Lanarkshire, from east This shows the east front of the electrically-operated swing bridge which was built in 1938. In the foreground and in front of the hipped roof control cabin (left) there were timber beams which supported the bridge when it had been moved into an open position. A new bridge slightly to the east replaced this bridge in 2000. The controls for opening the bridge to allow larger ships along the canal were located in the small cabin. Originally a drawbridge spanned the canal at this point but was replaced by this bridge probably due to the increases of car usage from the 1930s onwards. 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.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/531666
Attribution: © Crown Copyright: HES
Licence Type: Internally Generated
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
