View from N showing part of NNW front

Description View from N showing part of NNW front

Date 30/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 718114

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kelvin Aqueduct (Maryhill Aqueduct), Maryhill, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow This aqueduct 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. It takes the canal from the bottom of Maryhill locks over the river Kelvin. This shows the aqueduct from the north east, with the two land arches on the left, and the two river arches to the right. The left-hand arch carried, for a time after 1896 a branch railway from the Glasgow Central Railway to Dawsholm Gas Works. This aqueduct was the largest canal aqueduct in Europe when it was opened in 1790. It was repaired in 2000-01 as part of the Millennium Link Project, which reopened the Forth & Clyde Canal in 2001. The path under the aqueduct in this view is now part of the Kelvin Walkway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/11/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718114

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap