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View from SE showing ESE front of S lock with bridge in background
SC 717836
Description View from SE showing ESE front of S lock with bridge in background
Date 3/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717836
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content St Clements' Bridge, Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen Victoria Dock was Aberdeen's first large dock, built between 1840 and 1848. It was a wet (gated) dock, with both a single pair of gates and a lock to allow vessels to enter and leave when the tide was ebbing and flowing. These entrance channels were spanned by cast-iron swing bridges. This shows the two-leaf swing bridge completed in 1953 to span the entrance channels, seen from the south east. It was designed under the supervision of John Anderson, Harbour Engineer and built by Head Wrightson & Co. This was probably the only 20th century two-leaf swing bridge in Scotland. It had a short life, being demolished in the early 1970s to allow the entrance to the Victoria Dock to be widened. The dock is no longer gated. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/4/28
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