General view from NW showing Polmont Basin with bridge no. 54 in background
SC 635051
Description General view from NW showing Polmont Basin with bridge no. 54 in background
Date 2/1/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 635051
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Polmont Basin, Union Canal, Polmont Station, Falkirk The Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal was built between 1818 and 1822 to designs by Hugh Baird, engineer to the Forth & Clyde Canal. It joined the Forth & Clyde Canal at Camelon, but most of its traffic, both passenger and goods, was internal. This shows the canal wharf and basin at Polmont, with maintenance boats moored at the quay. Note the ramp down to the quay from the road on the left. The wharf was on the off side of the canal, the towpath being on the left in this view. The canal was still nominally open when this photograph was taken, but it was formally closed at the end of 1965, and gradually split up into sections by various blockages. The process of restoration of navigation began in the 1980s, and was completed in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/8/36
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