Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565222
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565222
PORT DUNDAS
Port Dundas marked the end of the Glasgow branch of the Forth & Clyde Canal. It was completed in 1790 and named after Sir Lawrence Dundas, Governor of the Canal Company. At the end was a timber seasoning basin and a distillery. Other industry soon followed: granaries, sugar refining, chemicals, iron founding and engineering. The Canal water level, 41m (156ft) above sea level at Port Dundas, is 35m (135ft) above the Clyde Street carriageway. The contemporary Monklands Canal linked the Lanarkshire coalfields to the Forth & Clyde at Port Dundas by a 'cut of junction'. A series of four locks, constructed in 1785 at Blackhill, raised the navigation level of the Forth & Clyde Canal by some 29m (96ft) to the level of the Monklands Canal
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
