Edinburgh, Forth Road Bridge. View from North West, of statue to opening of Bridge, 4th September, 1964. Digital image of A 37391 CN.

Description Edinburgh, Forth Road Bridge. View from North West, of statue to opening of Bridge, 4th September, 1964. Digital image of A 37391 CN.

Date c. 1964

Collection Eric de Maré: photographs

Catalogue Number SC 716135

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 37391 CN

Scope and Content Commemorative monument and viewing area, Forth Road Bridge, South/North Queensferry, Edinburgh The Forth Road Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the River Forth, was commissioned in 1947 and designed 1947-58 by architects Sir Giles Gilbert Scott & Partners, with Mott, Hay & Anderson and Freeman Fox & Partners as consulting engineers. Construction began in 1958 and the bridge was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen, on 4 September 1964. This shows an elegant flared commemorative monument with sculpted crest and inscribed and gilded letters recording the official opening of the Forth Road Bridge by Her Majesty the Queen accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh. Below this are inscribed the names of the architects, consultants, contractors and councillors involved in its construction. The total span of the Forth Road Bridge is nearly 1.8km with a main span of 1km. The elegant steel towers with their cross-beams are each 150m high. Its impressive position close by the famous Forth Rail Bridge (completed in 1890) makes it a popular tourist attraction and symbol of Scottish engineering innovation. Over 60,000 vehicles use the bridge each day, paying tolls on the northbound carriageway. This structure has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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