View from WNW showing N front of overflow with bridge in background

Description View from WNW showing N front of overflow with bridge in background

Date 27/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 717983

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Craigmarloch Sluice (Overflow Weir), 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 east shows the north side of an overflow weir used to discharge surplus water into the River Kelvin. The weir incorporates a sluice for draining the canal if necessary. The towpath is carried over the water channel on four small arches. 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 H35/70/8/24

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717983

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap