View from WNW showing WNW front

Description View from WNW showing WNW front

Date 7/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 770907

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Canal swing bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow Bridge, East Dunbartonshire This shows the bridge from the west. It has a steel plate girder span, and is built on the abutments of the bascule bridge which it replaced.. Note the wooden frameworks protecting the right-hand abutment from possible damage from boats. This bridge was demolished in the 1970s, and replaced by an Armco steel culvert. This was in turn replaced by a reinforced concrete beam bridge as part of the Glasgow Canal Project in the early 1990s. The canal was reopened from sea to sea in 2000 as part of the Millennium Link project. This was one of a number of hand-worked swing bridges built over the Forth & Clyde Canal in the 1920s, replacing the standard two-leaf bascule bridges which were proving inadequate to cope with the increasing weight of road vehicles. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/64/24

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/770907

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap