Old Photograph Locks Canal Street Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of Locks and houses on Canal Street in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland. The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. It is 35 miles long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow. Between 1789 and 1803 the canal was used for trials of William Symington's steamboats, culminating in the Charlotte Dundas, the " first practical steamboat " built at the shipyard in Grangemouth by Alexander Hart.





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