View from E showing NNE front
SC 662324
Description View from E showing NNE front
Date 23/8/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 662324
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bridge to Ness Islands, Island Bank Road, Inverness, Highland For many years Inverness had the largest group of suspension bridges in Scotland. Two of the five such bridges in the city were built in 1853-4 to the designs and patent of James Dredge of Bath. These had chains made of malleable-iron rods, with inclined suspenders supporting an iron-framed deck. This shows the bridge from the south-east. It linked Island Bank Road with the Ness Islands, in the channel of the River Ness. The pylons are cast iron, and the chains start at the pylons with several pairs of rods, losing two at each suspension point according to Dredge's patent. In the 1980s the Dredge bridges were examined by local authority engineers, who concluded that under extreme conditions of loading they would be unstable. They were therefore replaced by modern wire-rope suspension bridges. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/21/35
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