View from NW showing NNW front
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
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