Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Caledonian Canal, Clachnaharry Lock, Canal Workshops Detail of a heavy wooden swing door in the north-east facing external wall of the Canal Workshops, the ...

Description Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Caledonian Canal, Clachnaharry Lock, Canal Workshops Detail of a heavy wooden swing door in the north-east facing external wall of the Canal Workshops, the steel runner to guide the door's guiding wheel is visible in the foreground Digital image of D 64079.

Date 30/3/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 799576

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 64079

Scope and Content Doorway, Canal Workshops, Clachnaharry Lock, Caledonian Canal, Inverness, Highland This shows the main doorway on the north-east face of the canal workshops which were probably built around 1807 and rebuilt around 1850. The doorway has a dressed surround with a white-painted lintel. The doorway is large enough to allow finished lock gates out of the building and the door swings open along the track in the ground. This building would have been used by blacksmiths who would have repaired and made the ironwork used in the lock gates on the canal. Carpenters in the main block would have been responsible for the wooden components 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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