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SC 718125

Description View from NW showing NNW front

Date 30/3/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 718125

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Canal Cottages, Skaethorn Road, Forth & Clyde Canal, Glasgow These cottages were built in the mid 1890s, in part to house the bridgekeeper of the bascule bridge carrying Cleveden Road over the section of the Forth & Clyde Canal from Maryhill to Bowling designed by Robert Whitworth to complete sea-to-sea navigation. This shows the cottages from the north, built in a style typical of the Caledonian Railway in the 1890s, and probably designed by JJ Burnet, who designed other buildings for the Glasgow Central Railway. It was the building of a freight branch of that railway that required the demolition of an earlier cottage. The bascule bridge carrying Cleveden Road over the canal ceased operating when the canal closed at the end of 1962, and then collapsed under the weight of a lorry in 1968, precipitating its replacement by a culvert. The cottages are now privately owned. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/11/23

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/718125

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

Licence Type: Permission to Reproduce

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