Architecture Notes

Event ID 788451

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS56NE 217.02 5909 6655 to 5945 6648

Basin [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1984.

These basins are extensive and bollards still exist along the wharves.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

The basins at Port Dundas rapidly became busy and, on completion of the Monkland link in 1793, the area became even busier.

G Hutton 1993.

These basins are currently separated from, the main section of the Glasgow Branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, due to the fact that there has been considerable culverting and infilling. Although the basins, by North Canalbank Street and under the shadow of a distillery, are abandoned, nonetheless there is a bascule bridge still operable and there are plans for redevelopment.

The Port Dundas basins were linked to the Monkland canal, a waterway running eastwards out of Glasgow, constructed principally to bring cheap Lanarkshire coal into the city. This canal is today infilled.

H Brown 1997.

These three basins are shown on the 1st edition of the OS map (Lanarkshire 1865, sheet vi) and include a large timber basin at the SE corner of the complex. They are still visible on the 2nd edition of the OS 6 inch map (Lanarkshire 1896, sheet vi, NE), three bridges linking the basins with the encircling canal also being shown, as well as a road bridge (NS56NE 102) and railway bridge (NS56NE 121) at the E end of the most westerly basin.

On the OS Basic Scale Digital map (2000) the timber basin is no longer shown, nor are the bridges linking the basins.

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 29 August 2000.

[Scheduled area centred NS 5940 6665]. Scheduled as 'Forth and Clyde Canal, Port Dundas canal basin, Glasgow... a canal basin complex and a short stretch of canal, both now disused and cut off from the rest of the canal network'. The canal basin ('Port Dundas') was opened in 1790 as an extension to the Glasgow Branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 11 March 2002.