View looking E from Partick Bridge showing WSW front of Bridge

Description View looking E from Partick Bridge showing WSW front of Bridge

Date 28/12/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 696858

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bridge, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow This bridge was constructed in 1800 for the Glasgow & Yoker Turnpike Trust to carry their new carriage road over the River Kelvin, supplanting the medieval Partick Bridge and its approaches, to the south. The 1800 bridge was in turn replaced in 1877-8 by a bridge immediately to the south. This shows the bridge from the south-west, seen from the 1877-8 bridge, the top of whose parapet is visible on the right. The iron railings which replaced the masonry parapets were fitted with gates through which snow swept from the streets could be tipped into the river. As well as crossing the river, this bridge also spans the lade to the Bunhouse Mills (later Regent Mills), and the small arch over the lade is on the right in this view. The bridge still survives, now almost completely ivy-covered, as a footbridge for users of the park. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/38/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/696858

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap