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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 813858
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/813858
NT27SW 88 24453 72692
Foot Bridge [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
A distinctive and unusual early 20th century lifting bridge. It has a rivetted steel framework and a short lifting span. The control cabin is incorporated within the framework, and when the bridge was lifted, pedestrians could still cross by the lattice girder footbridge.
J R Baldwin 1985; G Hutton 1993a.
This 'Leamington Bridge', an electrically operated bridge in which the deck was raised between gantries on each side of the road so that boats could pass, was originally at Fountainbridge. It replaced a wooden drawbridge at the time of the closure of the city basins in 1922.
G Hutton 1993.
This lifting bridge, with 'Leamington Bridge' inscribed on it, was originally sited at Fountainbridge near the Port Hamilton Tavern (NT27SW 3134). The current location is close to the present end of the canal.
H Brown 1997.
During February 2000, RCAHMS conducted a photographic survey of Leamington Lift Bridge. The purpose of this survey was to enhance and augment the National Monuments Record Scotland.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), February 2000
This iron vertical lifting bridge joins Gilmore Park (to the NW) and Leamington Road (to the SE) within the inner suburbs of SW Edinburgh and a short distance SW of the former terminal basin of the Union Canal. It remains in regular use by vehicles and pedestrians.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 May 2006.
