View looking S showing part of WNW front of bridge with number 2, numbers 3-17 New Bridge Street and Town Hall in background

Description View looking S showing part of WNW front of bridge with number 2, numbers 3-17 New Bridge Street and Town Hall in background

Date 6/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 739580

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content New Bridge, Ayr, South Ayrshire This shows four of the five arches of the bridge from the north-west, with, beyond it, the line of the new street built as the southern approach to Stevens' bridge. The building to the left of the town hall spire was designed by Alexander Stevens to mark the south end of his bridge. Until the 1960s this bridge carried all the traffic on the A77 trunk road through Ayr to Girvan and Stranraer. An Ayr by-pass was then constructed, so that this bridge now carries only local traffic. This bridge was constructed in 1877-9 to designs by Blyth & Cunningham, engineers, Edinburgh, and replaced a bridge built in the 1780s and designed by Alexander Stevens, the leading bridge designer of his generation. Stevens' bridge replaced the medieval Old Bridge, which was retained as a footbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/40/41

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/739580

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap