View from NW showing boat and old Norwegian wooden boat in harbour

Description View from NW showing boat and old Norwegian wooden boat in harbour

Date 11/6/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 677819

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bowling Harbour, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire The first part of this harbour was built in the late 1810s by the Forth & Clyde Canal Co to facilitate the interchange of traffic between canal and the River Clyde. A lock was built to give direct access from the harbour to the canal. The harbour itself was subsequently altered and extended. This shows the east end of the dock, looking along a quay rebuilt in about 1900. The vessel is a wooden coaster built in Norway, and abandoned here. To the right is the entrance to the lock giving access to the entrance basin of the canal. The lock seen here has been retained as the means of transferring boats from river to canal, and the use of the original 1790 lock, which opened directly into the river, discontinued. The harbour is still used for mooring small craft, though much of it is derelict. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/16/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/677819

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