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View from South-West Digital image of B/55502

SC 792985

Description View from South-West Digital image of B/55502

Date 8/1991

Catalogue Number SC 792985

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 55502

Scope and Content Wyndford Lock-keeper's Cottage, Forth & Clyde Canal, North Lanarkshire, from south-west This shows the lock and remains of the lock-keeper's cottage which were built around 1770. The cottage is in a ruinous state and one of the gables has partially collapsed. The ashlar walls of the lock are stable but the lock gates on the right have lost their balance beams. The lock and the cottage were restored in the 1990s. Lock-keepers' cottages were located beside many of the locks on the canal and were occupied by the canal worker and his family who opened and closed the lock. Initially this lock was the terminus for pleasure steamers that ferried people on day trips along the canal. This part of the canal may well have been used as a stopping point for passengers on these boats. 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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