View looking ENE showing central (W) lock

Description View looking ENE showing central (W) lock

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718109

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Maryhill Locks, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow This flight of five locks was built between 1787 and 1790 as part of the section of the Forth & Clyde Canal from Maryhill to Bowling designed by Robert Whitworth to complete sea-to-sea navigation. These locks take the canal down from its summit level to cross the river Kelvin on a large aqueduct. This shows the second bottom lock from the top of the bottom lock, looking over the basin between them. The flight curves round to the right. The lock gates were cut down following the closure of the canal in 1962, and the level of the water in the basins has been lowered. This flight of locks, and the linked aqueduct, are the largest structures on the Forth & Clyde Canal. The locks were refurbished in the early 1990s as part of the Glasgow Canal Project, and the restoration of the whole canal was completed in 2001, as part of the Millennium Link Project. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/11/10

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718109

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap