View from WSW showing WNW and SSW fronts

Description View from WSW showing WNW and SSW fronts

Date 7/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770905

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Canal stables, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow Bridge, East Dunbartonshire This shows the stables from the west. The left-hand side of the main block contained the stalls on the ground floor, with grain and hay stored on the upper floor, which has a hoist door in the central bay. The dwelling house is in the right-hand end. The dwelling house housed the bridge-keeper for the adjacent hand-operated swing bridge until the canal closed in 1962. It was still inhabited in 1970, though the building was deteriorating. It was gutted in the 1970s, but the walls remained intact, and it was converted into a pub/restaurant in about 1990. This is one of a series of four blocks of stables built by the Forth & Clyde Canal Co, probably in about 1830, to provide relays of horses to haul fast passage-boats between Port Dundas and Lock 16 at Camelon. They had dwelling houses for the horse-keepers, and later housed other canal workers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/64/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770905

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap