Detail of swan-neck style bollard. Digital image of E/15007/CN.

Description Detail of swan-neck style bollard. Digital image of E/15007/CN.

Date 18/9/2001

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 681725

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 15007 CN

Scope and Content Mooring hook, Bowling Harbour, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire This shows a swan-necked style mooring hook at the harbour which was built between 1846 and 1849. Metal rivets have secured the large cast-iron hook onto a mass concrete section of the harbour wall. The remains of what appears to be an old boat or landing stage is just visible in the background. Originally there was only one dock for boats using the canal and the large ships that brought goods and produce to Scotland from abroad. Space was greatly increased when Bowling Harbour was built and the last addition to docking facilities was around 1896 when the smaller Upper Basin was added by the Caledonian Railway's Canal Department. The Forth & Clyde Canal was built between 1768 and 1790. It could have been completed sooner but funds ran out in 1777 and more money was not found by the government until 1784. John Smeaton (1724-92) was the designer and first chief engineer for the project. He was replaced in 1777 by Robert Mackell (d.1779), and in 1785 Robert Whitworth (1734-99) took over the building of the final section of the canal from Glasgow. When the canal was completed in 1790 it ran from the River Forth at Grangemouth, in the east, to Bowling on the River Clyde in the west of Scotland. The canal was linked to Edinburgh when the Union Canal was opened in 1822. The Forth & Clyde Canal was closed in 1963 and the Union Canal in 1965 and the construction of new roads meant that it was impossible for boats to travel along the full length of these watercourses. However, the £84.5m Millennium Link project enabled the canals to reopen in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/681725

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap