General view showing replacement span
SC 712949
Description General view showing replacement span
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712949
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Queenslie Bridge (Garthamlock Road), Monkland Canal, Glasgow The construction of the Monkland Canal was authorised in 1770. It was designed by James Watt to take coal from the Coatbridge area to Glasgow, and was completed as far as Riddrie in 1773. The original bridges had wooden beams spanning the canal, supported on masonry abutments. This view shows Queenslie Bridge, originally built in 1772, but subsequently widened, as rebuilt in about 1968 with a concrete deck and steel railings, probably to take the weight of construction traffic for the development of housing estates in the vicinity. This section of the canal was subsequently culverted, and this bridge demolished in order to construct the Monkland Motorway, part of the M8 Glasgow-Edinburgh road. There had been no traffic on the canal since the 1920s, but it was maintained as a feeder to the Forth & Clyde Canal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/54/17
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