Langholm, Townhead Bridge View of downstream side, from SW
SC 455192
Description Langholm, Townhead Bridge View of downstream side, from SW
Date 5/9/1975
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 455192
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Townhead Bridge, Langholm, Dumfriesshire This is a three-span masonry bridge, with segmental arches. It was widened in 1880 by adding wrought-iron footpaths with lattice railings, supported on brackets and on upward extensions from the cutwaters. This view shows the bridge from the south. The 1880 footpaths are evident, as is the original structure underneath Thomas Telford is said to have worked, as a young mason, on this bridge. Owing to an episode when a timber lorry mounted one of the 1880 footpaths and went through it, the bridge was widened and strengthened in 1995-6, with a concrete deck and steel railings of a similar pofile to the 1880 ones. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H75/67/4
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