Ayr, New Bridge View from WSW showing WNW front of bridge with part of church, library, public house and tenement in background
SC 591497
Description Ayr, New Bridge View from WSW showing WNW front of bridge with part of church, library, public house and tenement in background
Date 12/9/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 591497
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content New Bridge, Ayr (South Ayrshire council area) This five-span masonry arch bridge was built in 1878-9.to designs by B and E Blyth, engineers, Edinburgh, to replace a bridge designed by Robert Stevenson, which had become defective. This view shows the bridge from the south west, Note the heavy rustic treatment off the sandstone masonry of the lower part of the bridge, contrasting with the highly-finished granite parapet. The arches are very flat, and the piers unusually slender. When it was constructed, this bridge carried all the road traffic through the town. Though now bypassed for through traffic, it still carries heavy local traffic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/71/2A
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