Port Hamilton on the Union Canal

Category

Library Item

Item no

5010

Title

View of Port Hamilton on the Union Canal looking towards Morrison Street

Description

Port Hamilton on the Union Canal, Edinburgh. The banks of the canal are paved with stone cobbles and many handcarts are lying around. Large barrels and sacks can also be seen as well as gas lampposts. A group of rundown buildings and a factory chimney can be seen on the far shore. Two men are pointing and discussing the buildings. In the background tenement housing can be seen.

Artist / maker

Chrystal, Francis M.

Date

1920

Size

11 x 15.4 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image has been chosen for the Edinburgh - Past and Present Exhibition by John McLellan, Editor of Edinburgh Evening News - "'Situated just behind Gardner's Crescent Port Hamilton was swallowed up by the wave of changes that swept through this part of Edinburgh in the early part of the 20th Century. With so much development going on around what's left of the canal in the city centre, had this still been in existence it would have been the focal point of a new development rather than filled in as an unwanted relic of the past" John McLellan.

Port Hamilton was built as an additional basin at the Edinburgh end of the Union Canal. It was closed, along with Port Hopetoun, in 1922 as canal trade declined.

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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Architecture > Architectural features > Chimneys

Places > Edinburgh areas > Fountainbridge

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Canals

Transport > Infrastructure > Trails and paths

Transport > Land > Carts and wagons

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