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View of the Forth Bridge from the South East from the rescue boat with the Forth Road Bridge in the background.

SC 728370

Description View of the Forth Bridge from the South East from the rescue boat with the Forth Road Bridge in the background.

Date 9/9/1988

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 728370

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 3320 CN

Scope and Content Forth Bridge from the south-east, Edinburgh and Fife The Forth Bridge was built between 1883 and 1890 to designs by engineers Sir John Fowler (1817-98) and Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907) with Sir William Arrol (1839-1913) and Joseph Phillips as contractors. This massive steel railway viaduct features three double cantilevers connected by girders with a total span of 2.5 km. This photograph, taken from a rescue boat in the River Forth, shows the Forth Bridge with the Forth Road Bridge (opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1964) in the background. The complex patterns of angular girders in the Victorian bridge contrast with the more delicate outline of the equally impressive suspension bridge of more recent times. Initial reactions to the Forth Bridge's design were mostly favourable, although some thought it should have been more ornate and featured more decorative flourishes. One critic was the artist and writer William Morris (1834-96) who described the new structure as: 'the supremist specimen of all ugliness'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/728370

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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