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Manse Road basin and bridge no. 43, view from W Digital image of E 5912 CN
SC 796902
Description Manse Road basin and bridge no. 43, view from W Digital image of E 5912 CN
Date 31/7/2001
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 796902
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 5912 CN
Scope and Content Manse Road Basin, Union Canal, Linlithgow, West Lothian, from west This shows two boats docked in the basin with Bridge No 43, which was designed by Baird and built around 1820, on the left. A stepped parapet with railings surmounts the voussoir (arch formed with wedge-shaped blocks) of the bridge. The black-and red-painted barge is called 'Thistle Down' and is available for hire like many other boats at the basin. This basin would have been where barges which were bringing goods into or transporting them out of Linlithgow would have docked. The bridges on the Union Canal were built with dressed stone which was a sharp contrast to the many timber bascule bridges (drawbridges) on the Forth & Clyde Canal. The government authorised the construction of the Union Canal in 1817 and appointed Hugh Baird (1770-1827) as the chief engineer. The main purpose of the canal was to provide an economical route for the transportation of coal and lime between Edinburgh and Glasgow via the Forth & Clyde Canal (1768-90). The 51km-long canal was opened in 1822 at a cost of £461,760, almost double the estimate, and it ran from Lock 16 at Camelon, Falkirk to Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. Except where the two canals are joined at Falkirk, the canal was built with no locks because it followed the contours of the hills. The Union Canal was closed in 1965, two years after the Forth & Clyde Canal, and the construction of new roads meant that it was impossible for boats to travel along the full length of these watercourses. However, the £84.5m Millennium Link project enabled both canals to reopen in 2002. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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