Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Hugh Baird

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Hugh Baird (1770-1827)

1770 Born in Stirlingshire, son of Nicol Baird, brother of Charles Baird who became a civil engineer

1796 Surveyed the prospective sites for 2 reservoirs for the Forth and Clyde Canal.

1807 Succeed his father as superintendent of the Forth and Clyde Canal; birth of his son Nicol Hugh Baird

1813-6 With Francis Benjamin Hall surveyed the route between Edinburgh and Glasgow for the Union Canal

1818 Responsible for the construction of the Union Canal between Falkirk and Edinburgh, including the Slateford Aqueduct, Edinburgh

1827 Died at Kelvinside


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