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Lock gates and canal, view from WNW Digital image of E/6485/cn

SC 790828

Description Lock gates and canal, view from WNW Digital image of E/6485/cn

Date 18/9/2001

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 790828

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 6485 CN

Scope and Content East Lock (Lock 38), Bowling Upper Canal Basin, Forth & Clyde Canal, West Dunbartonshire, from west-north-west This shows part of the eastern lock gates of the lock, built around 1896, which leads into the upper basin. The large steel lock gates are late 20th-century additions and replace the original gates which would have been made of wood. A boat-landing platform beside the canal is shown in the background and a white-painted mooring hook is beside the lock (right). There are 39 locks on the Forth & Clyde Canal and each one is almost 21m long and 6m wide with an average water rise of 2.4m. The boat would move into the centre of the lock and water would either be added or drained till the water level was at the desired level for the boat to continue its journey. The Forth & Clyde Canal was built between 1768 and 1790. It could have been completed sooner but funds ran out in 1777 and more money was not found by the government until 1784. John Smeaton (1724-92) was the designer and first chief engineer for the project. He was replaced in 1777 by Robert Mackell (d.1779), and in 1785 Robert Whitworth (1734-99) took over the building of the final section of the canal from Glasgow. When the canal was completed in 1790 it ran from the River Forth at Grangemouth, in the east, to Bowling on the River Clyde in the west of Scotland. The canal was linked to Edinburgh when the Union Canal was opened in 1822. The Forth & Clyde Canal was closed in 1963 and the Union Canal in 1965 and the construction of new roads meant that it was impossible for boats to travel along the full length of these watercourses. However, the £84.5m Millennium Link project enabled the canals to reopen in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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