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Architecture Notes
Event ID 798867
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/798867
NS67SW 47 6230 7303
This steel lifting bridge, which takes the Torrance Road over the canal, is, like Lambhill Bridge (NS56NE 199), at a high enough level above the water that the towpath is able to continue underneath.
The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.
This bridge was originally a drawbridge.
H Brown 1997.
This bridge carried the Torrance Road over the canal. Following an accident in 1929, when a boat hit the bridge, the road had to be closed for a time. Probably as a result of this incident, the old wooden bridge was replaced in the mid 1930s by a steel lifting bridge. Although the bridge, constructed by Sir William Arrol and Co., smoothed out the road, a dangerous blind double bend was created on the canal.
G Hutton 1998.
This bridge is clearly marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1864, sheet i), and nearby there is a coal depot.
Information from RCAHMS (MD) 13 September 2000.
