View from SSW showing S front of cottages with bridge and landing stage (used by the Fairly Queen until 1939) on right

Description View from SSW showing S front of cottages with bridge and landing stage (used by the Fairly Queen until 1939) on right

Date 27/3/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 717979

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Craigmarloch Drawbridge (Bascule Bridge), 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 east, shows the bridge, of standard Forth & Clyde two-leaf type, in the centre, with the four associated canal cottages on the left, originally occupied by the bridgekeeper and lengthmen. Beyond the bridge, where the canal widens, was the destination for canal cruises from Glasgow. The canal had been closed in 1962, to allow the construction of the new A80 Glasgow-Stirling road over it at Castlecary. This bascule bridge was replaced by a fixed bridge in the 1970s, and the cottages were demolished. The canal was reopened throughout in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/8/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717979

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