View from SSE showing SW front

Description View from SSE showing SW front

Date 23/8/1965

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 662326

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content General's Well Bridge, Bught 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-west. It linked the Ness Islands with the road along the north bank 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. This one was re-erected, with a central support, in the Bught Park. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/21/37

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/662326

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap