Photographs of the Tay Bridge
551 1166/2
Description Photographs of the Tay Bridge
Collection Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House
Catalogue Number 551 1166/2
Category All Other
Scope and Content Copies of drawings relating to the Manderston estate
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2176136
Collection Hierarchy - Group Level
Collection Level (551 1166) Survey of Private Collections: Manderston House
> Group Level (551 1166/2) Photographs of the Tay Bridge
| Preview | Category | Catalogue Number | Title | Date | Level |
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| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38635 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Bridge viewed from North bank, three of central spans in position; note lattice iron towers on brick bases supporting the intermediate series of girders. | 6/1877 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38612 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit bay side; twin-column piers in various stages of being raised to ultimate level (land-piers on left are of solid brick). | Item Level | ||
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38613 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit side; later stage in erection of twin-column piers showing conjunction with deeper intermediate range of lattice girders. | 1877 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38639 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. 'The first passenger-carrying train to cross the bridge - the directors special leaving the South end on 26 September. 1878'. (ref Thomas J, Tay Bridge Disaster, 1972, p.86). | 26/9/1878 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38634 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Approach from Dundee, comprimising lattice girders with railway carried on upper boom - note various types of braced iron column supports. | 2/1877 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38617 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Range of twin-column brick piers extending from South bank; Wormit Bay jetty in foreground. | 3/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38618 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Interior view of high-girder section; note transverse bracing at head, and side bracing. | 5/1877 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38614 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. South end of bridge showing respectively, solid brick land-piers, twin-column brick piers, and subsequent change to iron towers towards centre of river. Note flanged iron pipes laid out in front of foundry, in readiness for building up into columns to form the iron towers. | 11/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38633 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. View from South showing completed approach curve from the Dundee side and deeper intermediate range of girders in foreground. | 11/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38621 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit jetty showing fabrication of foundation caissons in foreground, and one of lattice girders on jetty. Note cylinder sections in immediate foreground. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38620 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit jetty and iron foundry above. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38619 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Junction between low-girders and high-girder section, one span (far right) in process of being raised into position. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38627 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Artists drawing of Bouch's twin-column brick pier in process of erection, after the initial method of sinking two separate 8.1/2 dia iron cylinders (caissons), had been modified in favour of two cylinders joined by a common base. The section shows men progressively lifting out the sand from river-bed and then lining the cylinder with brick; the resultant 4ft diameter shaft was subsequently filled solid with concrete. The man standing on top of brickwork was a 'clayer', his job being to plug and leaking parts with clay. Boilers for lifting engines seen at summit. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38628 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. One of the twin-cylinder (caissons) being floated out by pontoon. (Drawing inaccurate in that brick-lining, as shown, was not built until cylinders sunk into position?). | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38632 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Outer limits of approach curve from North bank in course of construction. Lattice structure mounded near end of bridge might be travelling crane? | 3/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38631 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. North end, showing large-span bowstring girder. | 3/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38615 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. East side of bridge viewed from South bank overlooking works jetties at Wormit Bay. Solid brick and twin-column piers in foreground indicate extent of bridge built on rock foundation, before design changed to lattice iron towers, Autumn 1873. Brick foundry in foreground built by the original contractor Charles de Bergue & Company. One of high girder spans can be seen alongside jetty. | 7/1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38626 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. One of pontoons used for floating out caissons and brick bases. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38622 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Iron caisson in readiness for floating out by pontoon. | 1876 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38610 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Wormit side, early stages (c.1871) in bridge construction. | 1871 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38611 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Placement and sinking of trim-column piers on Wormit side. | 1875 | Item Level | |
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38629 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Artist's drawing of section through 31ft. dia. now caisson being sunk into river bed to form foundation for six-column iron towers of high central spans. It shows th ecaissons lined with brick, and a sand-pump machine (designed by Frank Beattie) for sucking out the sand, the machinery for creating the vacuum being mounted on a barge alongside. The interior of the hollow brick-lined cylinder was filled with concrete, and on top was placed a six-sided hollow casing of brickwork, 26' by 17', built at Wormit jetties and taken out by pontoon to be dropped over the caisson at high water. A three-course coping of sandstone capped by an iron bed-plate completed the base for the iron tower. (The bases are still to the immediate East of the new structure still to be seen and serving as cut-waters for the bridge subsequently re-built alongside.) | Item Level | ||
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38630 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. Hollow hexagonal brick casings pre-fabricated at the jetty and then floated out to be mounted on top of the caisson foundations. | Item Level | ||
| Photographs and Off-line Digital Images | A 38625 | Old Tay Bridge, Copy of historic photograph. One of the iron caissons set within its pontoon at the Wormit jetty. | Item Level |
