View from ENE showing S lock gate with inn in left background and terraced houses in right background

Description View from ENE showing S lock gate with inn in left background and terraced houses in right background

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 796263

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lock 16, Forth & Clyde Canal, Falkirk, from east This view from the east, taken in 1970, shows the top gates of Lock 16, cut down after the abandonment of navigation on the canal in 1962. In the left background is the Union Inn, built when the Union Canal reached its junction with the Forth & Clyde, at a point between lock and inn. The Forth & Clyde was closed to navigation at the end of 1962, to facilitate road construction. The link to the Union had gone in the 1930s. Both canals were restored from the mid-1990s as the Millennium Link, with a new connection to the west in the form of the 'Falkirk Wheel', a revolving canal boat lift. The Forth & Clyde Canal was designed as a sea-to-sea ship canal, the world's first, and built from 1768 to 1790, to designs by John Smeaton and Robert Whitworth. In 1818-22 the connecting Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal was built to designs by Hugh Baird, the Forth & Clyde's engineer. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT178

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