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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929412
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929412
With the advent of the oil industry, in the 1970s Victoria Dock was redeveloped and the tide locks [at Waterloo Quay] were removed in 1975 making the whole harbour tidal, with deepening by dredging as necessary.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
