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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 602902
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602902
A masonry seven-arch, 42 ft wide bridge designed by Mylne and built from 1768–72 by John Adam was replaced by the Thomas Telford Bridge of 1833-5. The progressive effects of navigational dredging had weakened the foundations.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
