View from SSE showing part of SW front of bridge with part of Caledonian Mansions in background.

Description View from SSE showing part of SW front of bridge with part of Caledonian Mansions in background.

Date 16/2/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 698936

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Road Bridge over River Kelvin (Kelvin Bridge), Great Western Road, Glasgow The first-high-level bridge on this site was opened in 1836 as part of the Great Western Road, a new route into Glasgow City Centre from the north west, suitable for carriages, and replacing an old winding route along what are now North and South Woodside roads and a low-level bridge here. This shows the bridge which replaced the 1836 structure in 1889-91 to designs by Bell & Miller, engineers. Like their Partick Bridge of 1877-78 it has cast iron arches. In this case the arches support two large-diameter water mains as well as the carriageway. This view is from the south-east. Since this photograph was taken, the ground in the foreground, formerly part of Kelvinbridge Goods & Mineral Depot, has become the site of the surface building of Kelvinbridge Underground Station, with an escalator link to the deck of the bridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/11/12

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/698936

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap