View from NNE showing NW front and N pylon
SC 779289
Description View from NNE showing NW front and N pylon
Date 26/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 779289
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Suspension Footbridge (Greig Street Bridge), Church Lane, Inverness, Highland This shows the bridge from the south. The lattice girder pylons are founded on cast-iron caissons, and the deck is supported on light single Warren steel trusses, with wire grilles for safety. The bridge was built by the Rose Street Foundry, whose premises were nearby. This bridge, and the other 1881 bridge, Infirmary Bridge, were both overhauled in the 1990s, keeping largely to the original design. Inverness has four suspension bridges, the largest concentration of such bridges in Scotland. This was one of two long suspension footbridges built across the River Ness in Inverness in 1881, using the then-new technique of wire-rope suspension cables. At the time there was only one road bridge in Inverness, so these bridges offered welcome relief to pedestrians. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/19/34
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