View from SSE showing workboat at N end of Muirtown Basin with crab winch and workshops in background
SC 662337
Description View from SSE showing workboat at N end of Muirtown Basin with crab winch and workshops in background
Date 25/8/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 662337
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Canal Workshops and Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Clachnaharry, Inverness, Highland This lock was built as part of the Caledonian Canal, designed by Thomas Telford, which runs from Clachnaharry to Corpach, through the Great Glen. It was opened in 1822. The workshops were established here at about that time. This shows the lock from the south, with the timber store and saw mill, with its associated derrick cranes, in the background. The workboat 'Lochalsh II' is a conversion of a turntable-deck ferry which operated on the Kyle of Lochalsh to Kyleakin ferry. In 1965, when this photograph was taken, the lock had recently been converted from manual to hydraulic operation. The timber store and saw mill have now gone, as the canal no longer employs its own maintenance staff. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/22/10
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