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General view from ENE showing remains of ESE front of stables and cottages
SC 717949
Description General view from ENE showing remains of ESE front of stables and cottages
Date 27/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717949
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Shirva Canal Stables, Forth & Clyde Canal, East Dunbartonshire The Forth & Clyde Canal was built to take small ships between the estuaries of the rivers Forth and Clyde. It was designed by John Smeaton, engineer, and construction started in 1768. It reached Kirkintilloch in 1774, Maryhill in 1775, Glasgow in 1777, and was completed to Bowling between 1786 and 1790. This view, from the south east, shows one of four blocks of stables built in about 1830 to provide relays of horses to haul high-speed fly-boats. The range of cottages on the right is a later addition, possibly to house stable-boys. The fly-boat service for which these stables were built ran between Port Dundas, Glasgow and Lock 16, Camelon. The houses attached to the stables seem to have been occupied until the closure of the canal in 1962. By 2001 the remains of this building were hardly visible. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/8/35
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