Archaeology Notes

Event ID 768750

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 213 5641 6910

For adjacent Maryhill Locks, see NS56NE 84.

See also NS56NE 217.00.

Glasgow, Forth & Clyde Canal.

Architect: John Smeaton, 1764

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Opening from the (Maryhill Locks) basin adjacent to Maryhill Road, there is the small dry dock (Kelvin Dock) constructed by the canal company (c. 1790) that fostered the growth of the original village here; it was last used for boat repair in 1962.

E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.

A cleverly constructed conduit system allows this dry dock to drain into a lower basin. The whole complex is interlinked in a continuous work of masonry.

The first puffer was built in this dock.

G Hutton 1993.

This is the original Kelvin Dock, which, having been built in 1789, constitutes the canal's oldest building yard. Canal company boats were launched from here, sometimes stern first and sometimes sideways. A dry dock was also part of the complex.

The Dock is situated on the N side of the canal, between Locks 22 and 23.

H Brown 1997.

This structure is situated to the N of the Maryhill Locks (NS56NE 84), to the W of Maryhill Road, and to the S of Cowal Street and Walker Square. It is depicted but not noted on the 1976 edition of the OS 1:1250 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2005.