Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Caledonian Canal, Clachnaharry Lock, Canal Workshops View from the middle of the top lock gate of the Clachnaharry Lock showing the lockside frontage of the ...

Description Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Caledonian Canal, Clachnaharry Lock, Canal Workshops View from the middle of the top lock gate of the Clachnaharry Lock showing the lockside frontage of the Canal Workshops. Part of the partially filled lock is visible in the foreground Digital image of D 64077 CN

Date 30/3/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 799574

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 64077 CN

Scope and Content Clachnaharry Lock, Caledonian Canal, Inverness, Highland, from east This view looking west from the pedestrian walkway of the lock gates shows the canal workshops with the lock, built around 1807 by John Simpson and John Cargill, in the foreground. The workshops, surmounted by a bellcote, were probably built around the same time as the lock but were much rebuilt around 1850. White-painted mooring hooks which are used to secure boats in the lock can be seen along the edge of the lock. The original lock gates and the replacement lock gates, built between 1890 and 1906, were probably constructed in the workshop. The locks were mechanised by the mid-20th century and the workshops now contain the control room, located in the projecting bay window, for the opening and closing of the lock gates. The Caledonian Canal was designed by Thomas Telford (1757-1834) and built between 1803 and 1822 at a cost of £840,000. It was the first example of a transport network funded by the government in Great Britain. The 96.5km-long canal provides a route for boats travelling between the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean as it runs from the Beauly Firth at Clachnaharry, Inverness, to Loch Linnhe at Corpach. Only 35.4km of this length is man-made while the other 61km runs through four lochs: Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy. Unfortunately at 4.2m deep the canal was too small for most sea-going ships which led to it being altered and deepened between 1844 and 1847. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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