View looking ESE along top.
SC 718182
Description View looking ESE along top.
Date 25/4/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718182
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Avon Aqueduct, Union Canal, West Lothian The Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal was built between 1818 and 1822 as a barge canal. Its engineer, Hugh Baird, was the engineer of the Forth & Clyde Canal. It was designed for high-speed passenger transport, and is on the same level from Falkirk to Edinburgh. This shows the top of the Avon Aqueduct, the largest of three long and tall aqueducts crossing river valleys built to allow the canal to remain at summit level. All have cast iron troughs supported on masonry arches. This view is taken from the north west. This photograph was taken on the occasion of a rally organised by the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Society to encourage interest in the preservation of the Union Canal, which had officially closed in 1965. The canal was eventually reopened throughout as part of the Millennium Link in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/14/42
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