View looking SW showing part of canal with top of aqueduct in bakground

Description View looking SW showing part of canal with top of aqueduct in bakground

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718112

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Maryhill - Stockingfield Junction - Lambhill (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 bottom basin from the tail of the bottom lock, looking south west to the Kelvin Aqueduct, which begins at the end of the basin. The graceful curves of the canal-side walls are typical of the designs of Robert Whitworth. 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 H35/70/11/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718112

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