View looking WSW showing ENE front of bascule bridge with bridge in background and part of basin in foreground

Description View looking WSW showing ENE front of bascule bridge with bridge in background and part of basin in foreground

Date 13/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733529

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Upper 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, and the upper one formed in the 1880s and remodelled in the mid 1890s. This shows the west end of the upper basin from the east, looking along the channel under the swing bridge carrying the Lanarkshire and Dumbarton-shire Railway over the canal. It was the construction of this railway that necessitated the remodelling of this basin. 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 in this view. The canal was reopened throughout in 2001 as part of the Millennium Link project. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/30/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733529

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