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Architecture Notes
Event ID 665205
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665205
NS56NE 217.01 NS 5713 6897 to NS 5945 6648.
Port Dundas quickly became busy, as the Clyde was shallow and tidal, and in consequence, in 1790, on completion of the canal, travel into the city by canal was easier than on the river.
G Hutton 1993.
The name of Sir Lawrence Dundas, a major backer of the canal, is commemorated in the terminal area of this branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, Port Dundas. This branch of the canal was in operation as far as Hamiltonhill by 1777, but, due to shortage of funds until the government issued a grant in 1784, it was not completed until 1790. The canal was just used for the transport of goods initially, and a regular passenger service did not commence until 1875, when George Aitken commenced a goods and passenger run between Port Dundas and Castlecary.
H Brown 1997.
Glasgow, Forth & Clyde Canal.
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John Smeaton, 1768.
