Architecture Notes

Event ID 789309

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/789309

NS56NW 68. NS 5492 6939.

The busy Bearsden Road traverses the canal on a massive steel bascule bridge which has a span of fifty five feet. This construction of 1932 replaced the original Temple Bridge, which crossed the chamber of Lock 27, a little further to the E.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

In 1932, when the Bearsden Road was realigned, this large lifting bridge was constructed. It replaced the former bascule bridge which had been built to span the lock chamber. The Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh possesses a useful working model of this new bridge.

G Hutton 1993.

Originally Crow Road (North) traversed the canal at this point on a bascule bridge, but when the Bearsden Road was realigned in 1932, the earlier bridge was replaced by a huge steel lifting bridge. Although this bridge has now itself been replaced by a massive four-lane bridge, constructed with railings and iron girders, a model of it is on view at the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

H Brown 1997.

Originally there was a bascule bridge on this site, traversing the chamber of Lock 27 and carrying the Crow Road, Temple. With the increase of road traffic in the 1920s,a bottleneck was created and consequently a policeman was required to control the flow of vehicles, farm animals and pedestrians. Much debate ensued before a new lifting bridge, of similar nature to that at Cloberhil, was started in 1930. This construction formed part of a larger scheme which had been undertaken in order to improve the road between Canniesburn Toll and Anniesland. This new road, which passed through Robinson Dunn's timber yard, was opened in 1932.

G Hutton 1998.

Glasgow, Forth & Clyde Canal.

ARCHITECT: John Smeaton, 1764.