View looking NNW showing canal feeder at Craigmarloch with stables in background
SC 717977
Description View looking NNW showing canal feeder at Craigmarloch with stables in background
Date 27/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717977
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Craigmarloch Feeder, Forth & Clyde Canal, North Lanarkshire 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, looking north, shows the feeder from the Townhead Reservoir, to the east of Kilsyth, built to supply water to the summit level of the canal, and compensation water to millers on the River Kelvin. The border between Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire runs across the bottom of this view. The canal had been closed in 1962, to allow the construction of the new A80 Glasgow-Stirling road over it at Castlecary, but the feeder was kept in good condition. It was reopened throughout, but with limited headroom, in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/8/18
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