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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BOWLING (Continued) | Bowling (continued | [continued from page 45] is a shipbuilding yard in which there are "Slip Docks" so called by the masters of the Yard Messrs Scott & adopted upon their authority. The Yard is however only used for repairing vessels of small tonnage. |
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| BOWLING HARBOUR | Bowling Bay Bowling Bay Bowling Bay Bowling Bay Bowling Bay Bowling Bay |
Mr. Lyall Canal Hr. Mr. [Harbour Master] Mr. McKinlay Canal Collector Mr. Allan Auchentorlie Cottage Mile Posts on Canal Fullarton's Gazetteer Mr McTaggart, Custom Ho [House] Officer |
022 | The Bay of Bowling is by some understood to extend from Dunglass in the west to near Erskine Ferry in the east, but upon the authority of Mr Lyall, the Bay is confined within the stone pier erected by the Trust & the Canal Co's [Company's] wooden pier, on the south. The Clyde Trusts western bounds of the pier to near Friskyhall, on one side & the Forth & Clyde Canal, on the other is upon the same authority the extent of the Bay east & west. There is a line across the Bay shewing the portion belonging to the Canal Co [Company]. The Canal Co [Company] has a wooden Light Ho [House] at the end of the wooden Pier. It is a permanent Light House. There are mooring Posts along the H.W. [High Water] mark of the Bay built into strong buttresses of masonery. |
| LIGHT HOUSE [Bowling] | Light House (Wood) | Mr Lyall Mr. McKinlay |
022 | The Canal Co. [Company] has a wooden Light Ho. [House] at the end of the wooden pier. It is a permanent Light House. |
Continued entries/extra info
[Page] 46Co [County] Dumbarton -- Old Kilpatrick Ph. [Parish]
[Below entry for Bowling Harbour:]
Bowling Harbour as adopted on Plan of Erskine Ph. [Parish]
Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
Nora Edwards, NRS - Moderator, Alison James- Moderator, Jim-B
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