Slateford Aqueduct
Slateford Aqueduct : Richard Baird, Commander of the Clan Baird, and John Cameron.
Remarks by John Cameron were as follows :
'It's splendid that both these unveilings celebrate Hugh Baird's Union Canal as a whole, and I’m delighted to be joining my fellow farmer, Clan Baird Commander Richard Holman Baird in doing the honours. This is actually the Union's third Red Wheel, others being at the Leamington Lift Bridge and the Linlithgow Canal Basin. It's the first at one of its Aqueducts, chosen as the most visited of the three graceful iron-trough designs to be seen also at Lin's Mill and Muiravonside. As a railwayman I'm conscious of how railways ended the first Canal Age - however in their splendid repurposing, by the Millennium Link as a mode of sustainable travel, maybe it's the
canals that have had the last laugh.'
Location: Slateford Aqueduct
Original line: Union Canal
Photographer: John Yellowlees
Contact photographer: John Yellowlees
Date: 07/08/2023
Image number: 87156
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