View from N showing canal with NNW and ENE fronts of house in background
SC 796261
Description View from N showing canal with NNW and ENE fronts of house in background
Date 5/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796261
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dingwall Canal, Highland This view from the north-west, taken in May 1974, shows the seaward end of the canal, with the remains of timber-piled quays. The problems caused by silting are obvious. When the canal was built, coastal shipping was the main means of trading throughout most of Scotland. This canal succumbed to rail competition after 1863, when the first part of the Inverness & Ross-shire Railway opened. Its ultimate demise should not, however, blind us to the importance of the improvement of coastal navigation it represented at the time of its construction. This canal is in fact the canalised seaward end of the River Peffray, converted into a navigable waterway to designs by Thomas Telford in 1815-17, as part of the government-sponsored improvement of transport and communications in the Highlands. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT177
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