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Kirkintilloch, Forth and Clyde Canal, Hillhead Bridge Detail of lamp standard Digital image of D/61860

SC 793074

Description Kirkintilloch, Forth and Clyde Canal, Hillhead Bridge Detail of lamp standard Digital image of D/61860

Date 29/3/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 793074

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 61860

Scope and Content Lamp standard, Hillhead Bridge, Forth & Clyde Canal, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire This shows a lamp standard on an abutment of Hillhead Bridge which was engineered by Crouch & Hogg and built by Sir William Arrol & Company in 1938. The lamp standard is one of a set of four on the bridge and has four rectangular sides. Each front has a latticework middle section with a central oval rosette, a curved diamond-patterned base and a roundel-patterned top. Lion Foundry & Company, founded around 1880, made these lamp standards locally in Kirkintilloch. Hillhead Bridge was designed to swing open to allow puffers and larger ships along the canal. 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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