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Kirkintilloch, Forth and Clyde Canal, Hillhead Bridge Detail of Control Room, from south Digital image of D/61858/cn
SC 793039
Description Kirkintilloch, Forth and Clyde Canal, Hillhead Bridge Detail of Control Room, from south Digital image of D/61858/cn
Date 29/3/2000
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 793039
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 61858 CN
Scope and Content Control cabin, Hillhead Bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, from south This shows the control cabin of Hillhead Bridge which was engineered by Crouch & Hogg and built by Sir William Arrol & Company in 1938. The two-bayed building has a piended (hipped) roof with red ridge tiles and the windows and timber door have been covered with metal plates. The remains of a lamp standard (left) tops a concrete abutment and is one of a set of four on the bridge. Part of the steel parapet is shown on the left. The controls for opening the bridge to allow larger ships along the canal were located in this cabin. Originally a bascule bridge (drawbridge) spanned the canal slightly to the south but was replaced by this bridge when it became too small for the increases of car usage from the 1930s onwards. 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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