Architecture Notes

Event ID 705488

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS77NW 69 NS 7215 7680.

This offside basin, with a slipway and jetty permitting access to the water, is the base for the trip boat Gipsy Princess, which belongs to the Forth and Clyde Canal Society and which commenced sailing between this point and Craigmarloch and Wyndford Lock in 1990.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

This basin, to the E of Auchinstarry Bridge (NS77NW 54) and on the S bank of the canal, is the base for the cruise boat, Gypsy Princess, owned by the Forth and Clyde Canal Society.

Formerly Kilsyth coal was transferred onto canal boats at Auchinstarry for shipment to Glasgow and sometimes Belfast, but later Twechar and then the railways took over the business.

H Brown 1997.

From 1990 the excursion boat of the Forth and Clyde Canal Society, Gipsy Princess, has been moored in this basin.

At one time Auchinstarry acted as the port for Kilsyth, shipping coal as well as whinstone kerbs and gravel from the quarry.

G Hutton 1998.

This basin is clearly marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dunbartonshire 1864-5, sheet xixA) as well as the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1990).

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 28 September 2000.