Forth and Clyde Canal, Wyndford Lock View looking SSE across bridge with lock-keeper's cottage in background
SC 587184
Description Forth and Clyde Canal, Wyndford Lock View looking SSE across bridge with lock-keeper's cottage in background
Date 22/3/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 587184
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Wyndford Lock, Forth and Clyde Canal, near Banknock, Dunbartonshire (North Lanarkshire council area) This is the lock at the eastern end of the summit level of the Forth and Clyde Canal. The level was completed to the outskirts of Glasgow in 1775. The canal was closed in 1962, and this was the last lock to retain its gates intact. This view shows the lock from the west, with the lock-keeper's house to the left. Note that the balance beams on the gates are still in position, and that there is a standard double-leaf bascule bridge over the lock chamber. Subsequently the bascule bridge was replaced by a fixed concrete beam structure, and the gates were cut down, as elsewhere on the canal. The canal is due to reopen in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link scheme. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/11/1C
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