View from ESE showing restaurant barge 'Lady Margaret' at N side bridge

Description View from ESE showing restaurant barge 'Lady Margaret' at N side bridge

Date 11/1990

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

Catalogue Number SC 796257

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Boats on the Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow Road Bridge, near Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire This view from the east, taken in November 1990 shows part of the canal completed in 1775, looking towards Stockingfield. The boat in the foreground is a restaurant boat, the 'Lady Margaret', placed on the canal in the late 1980s. Behind it is the former Clyde ferry, running as the 'Ferry Queen'. The Forth & Clyde was closed to navigation at the end of 1962. Its revival as a navigation began here in the late 1980s, with two restaurant boats and the 'Ferry Queen', which was operated as a trip boat by the Forth & Clyde Canal Society. The canal was reopened throughout in 2000. The Forth & Clyde Canal was designed as a sea-to-sea ship canal, the world's first, and built from 1768 in three major stages: from Grangemouth to Stockingfield, near Glasgow; from Stockingfield to Glasgow; and from Stockingfield to Bowling. It was opened throughout in 1790. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT175

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