View from WNW showing River Clyde entrance
SC 677818
Description View from WNW showing River Clyde entrance
Date 11/6/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 677818
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 entrance to the lock from the river, looking along the wooden pier which formed part of the south side of Bowling Harbour. The balance beams of the bottom gates of the lock can be seen. The lock was designed by Robert Whitworth, engineer. 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 H35/66/16/7
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