View from W showing boats in Canal House Basin with Custom House on left

Description View from W showing boats in Canal House Basin with Custom House on left

Date 13/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733525

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Canal House Basin, Bowling Basin, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire The Forth and Clyde Canal was authorised in 1768, and completed to Glasgow in 1777. The main line was extended to Bowling in 1786-90, with Government assistance. There are two basins at Bowling, the lower one constructed in 1848 when the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Railway was opened to Balloch. This shows the lower basin looking north-east from the entrance lock of 1790. The building in the distance is the canal office and former custom house, and to its right is a railway swing bridge opened in 1896 to carry the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway over the canal. The Forth and Clyde Canal was closed at the end of 1962, but the basins, and a short section of canal above the upper basin, remained in use for mooring yachts and houseboats, as seen here. The canal was reopened throughout in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link project. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/30/42

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733525

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