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SC 739862

Description View from E showing ESE front

Date 12/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 739862

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Auld Brig o' Doon, Alloway, Ayr, South Ayrshire This shows the bridge from the north, showing the steep rise to the crown of the bridge, and the fact that the roadway across the arch is narrower than the abutments, in a manner typical of bridges built before the 18th century. Robert Burns celebrated this bridge in his poem 'Tam o' Shanter'. By 1816, when this bridge was supplanted by a new one, though Burns had been dead for only 20 years, the cult of the poet was already well established. Alloway had become a resort, and the Auld Brig a place of pilgrimage. This bridge was built in the 15th century over the River Doon. It has an unusually long span for the period, and has a dressed stone arch ring, with rubble spandrels and wing walls. It was repaired in 1832, after it had been supplanted for heavy traffic by a new bridge, and again in the mid-1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/43/27

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/739862

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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People and Organisations

Events

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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