View from SSW showing part of SW front

Description View from SSW showing part of SW front

Date 16/2/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 698951

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kirklee Bridge, Kirklee Road, Glasgow This bridge was built in 1899-1900 for the Glasgow Corporation Highways Department to designs by Formans & McCall, engineers. It linked the developing Kirklee Estate with a residential area on the north bank of the Kelvin, and more particularly the latter with Kirklee Station, opened in 1896. This shows the bridge from the south, with its tall semi elliptical arch flanked by coupled Ionic columns, inspired by the design of Robert Mylne's Blackfriars Bridge in London, built in 1760-69 and demolished in 1864. The Kirklee bridge is faced with red sandstone, with granite parapets and columns. This is the most elaborate of all Glasgow's road bridges, and was built at a time when the confidence both of the citizens and of the municipality was at its highest point, as symbolised by the International Exhibition held in Kelvingrove Park in 1901. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/11/28

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/698951

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap