View from SW showing SW front of E lock gates with chimney, Custom House and swing bridge in background

Description View from SW showing SW front of E lock gates with chimney, Custom House and swing bridge in background

Date 11/6/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 677814

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clyde Lock, Bowling, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire This lock was constructed for the opening of this section of the Forth & Clyde Canal in 1790, as the sea lock, opening directly into the tidal River Clyde. As a sea lock it had an unusually deep chamber to cope with the varying height of the tides in the river. This shows the top gates of the lock, which was still in operation in 1966, with the entrance basin in the background. The white-painted building is the custom house and canal office, and behind it are the viaduct and swing bridge carrying the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway. When the Forth & Clyde Canal Co constructed Bowling Harbour in the late 1810s they built a lock connecting the entrance basin to the new harbour, which was an alternative sea lock. This one has been retained, and the use of the original lock discontinued, though it is still used for berthing vessels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/16/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677814

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