View from SSE showing SSE front

Description View from SSE showing SSE front

Date 6/4/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 699278

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Suspension Bridge (Footbridge), Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway This suspension footbridge was built in 1874-75 to designs by John Willet of Aberdeen, engineer. It was constructed downstream of what was then the lowest crossing of the Nith, the medieval Devorgilla's Bridge. To make it easier for workers in the Maxwelltown tweed mills to walk to work. This shows the bridge from the south. It has a lattice girder deck suspended from malleable-iron chains which are supported at each end by pairs of cast iron columns linked at the top by light cast iron arches. The bridge was apparently in original condition in 1969. The deck, cables and suspenders were all renewed in steel in 1985 to designs by W A Fairhurst & Partners, engineers. Its position as the lowest bridge on the Nith ended in 1927, when the St Michael's Bridge, a short distance downstream, was opened. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/20/32

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699278

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap