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View from W showing NW front
SC 710518
Description View from W showing NW front
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710518
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clydesholm Bridge, Kirkfieldbank, South Lanarkshire This bridge was built in 1694-9, and is now the oldest crossing of the river Clyde. It is on what was at the time the main road to Glasgow, via Hamilton, from Carlisle. This remained a trunk route until Thomas Telford's Glasgow-Carlisle road was completed in the early 1820s. This shows the bridge from the south-west, with the approach road from Lanark in the background. The massive piers with their triangular cutwaters carried up to provide pedestrian refuges are typical of the period, as are the semicircular arches. This bridge carried main road traffic until 1956, when a new single-span bridge with a reinforced-concrete arch, was opened, immediately to the north. The old bridge has been retained as a footbridge, It is one of very few late 17th century bridges in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/37/1
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