View of Port Hopetoun, Union Canal

Category

Library Item

Item no

4957

Title

View of Port Hopetoun, Union Canal

Description

A large stone building overlooks the Union Canal in Edinburgh. The building has wooden extensions built on to each side and a large arched doorway at the waters edge. Tenement buildings can be seen in the background.

Artist / maker

Chrystal, Francis M.

Date

1920

Size

10.7 x 15.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Full title reads 'View of Port Hopetoun, Union Canal, showing old house from which passengers embarked on barges for Glasgow. Houses of Lothian Road are seen in the background.'

Port Hopetoun was the Edinburgh terminus of the Union Canal. It was closed, along with Port Hamilton in 1922 as canal trade declined. The site was later developed as Lothian House.

The Union Canal was opened in 1822. It ran from Tollcross in Edinburgh to meet the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk, thus linking the capital to Glasgow. After extensive renovation in the 1990's the Canal is now a popular area for recreation, with non-commercial craft using the waterway and many cyclists, walkers and runners using the towpath.

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