Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562489
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562489
Until recently, access to Wooden Anna was by a suspension bridge. The last remnants of the bridge were demolished in 1998 to make way for the new Kelso by-pass.
Photographs of the bridge taken in 1976 show the bridge had two steel pylons at both ends and a wooden plank walkway suspended by a chain made of iron rods to a design characteristic of about 1820. The bridge is shown on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Roxburghshire (1860).
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
