General view looking SE along top of aqueducts from Baird's Brae showing Glasgow Branch
SC 712942
Description General view looking SE along top of aqueducts from Baird's Brae showing Glasgow Branch
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712942
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Aqueducts, Forth & Clyde Canal, Possil Road, Glasgow The Forth & Clyde Canal reached Glasgow in 1777, when a branch from Maryhill to Hamiltonhill was completed. It was extended in 1790 to Port Dundas, to designs by Robert Whitworth, and crossed the Possil road on an aqueduct. This was supplanted in about 1880 by a larger one built to take horse trams. This view shows the track of the canal over the top of the two aqueducts, looking south east. The Whitworth aqueduct is at the point where the curvature of the left canal quay ends, and the c.1880 aqueduct is immediately beyond. On the left is a modern bonded warehouse, and on the right a metal canister works. The Whitworth aqueduct still survives, though it can only really be seen from the north-east side. Its replacement was paid for by Glasgow Corporation, who owned the city's street tramways, and its maintenance is still the responsibility of Glasgow City Council. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/54/12
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