Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 609872
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609872
This elegant ferro-concrete arched footbridge, locally dubbed ‘faery brig’, erected over the Allan Water in 1911
is of the stiffened arch type. It was a bold design for its time and is notable for having been designed and constructed by Considere, early pioneers of reinforced concrete work. The span is 93 ft, the rise of the arch is 11 ft 9 in. and the footway is 4 ft wide. A plate on the handrailing records that the bridge was restored in 1974 by Leitch & Sharpe, consulting engineers, Glasgow; James Grant & Sons Ltd, contractor, Alloa; and B. J. McKay, Burgh Surveyor, Dunblane. Considere’s practice may have influenced the eminent Robert Maillart in his similar design for the bridge at Toss in Switzerland erected in 1934.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
