Architecture Notes

Event ID 802795

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/802795

NS47SW 64.03 NS 4497 7353.

The construction of this lock, and the outer harbour (NS47SW 64.00) into which it opens, was authorised by an Act of August 1846 and completed by 1849.

J, Lindsay 1968.

The Act which authorised the construction of this lock was entitled 'An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation to extend and enlarge the basin at Bowling Bay, and to make and maintain certain other works in connection therewith, and to alter and amend the Acts relating to the said Navigation.' It was passed on 18th August 1846.

Information from Local and Personal Acts, August 1846, The Advocates Library, 13 July 2000.

This lock, known as Lock 40, furnishes the means by which boats from the canal enter the Clyde through Bowling Harbour.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

When the canal was closed in 1963, the lock was maintained as part of a small section of working canal in order that fresh water moorings could be supplied for boats on the Clyde.

G. Hutton 1993

2001 photographic survey is stored under 'Forth and Clyde Canal' in the NMRS.