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The wooden bridge over the Union Canal at Semple Street
Chrystal, Francis M., 1920, Photograph
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The wooden bridge over the Union Canal at Semple Street
The wooden bridge over the Union Canal at Semple Street
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Title
The wooden bridge over the Union Canal at Semple Street
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A small wooden bridge crosses over the Union Canal at Semple Street, Edinburgh. Buildings can be seen on either side of the bridge and a row of tenements behind it.
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Chrystal, Francis M.
Date
1920
Size
11 x 15.6 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Full title reads 'The wooden bridge over the Union Canal at Semple Street now gone. At this spot George Meikle Kemp was drowned in the year 1844'
George Meikle Kemp designed the monument to Sir Walter Scott which stands on Edinburgh's Princes Street. He died two years before the monuments completion.
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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The Union Canal and Fountainbridge
F. M. Chrystal's Union Canal
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