Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929317
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929317
Polhollick Footbridge, Bridge of Gairn
A suspension bridge of 180 ft span over the Dee made and erected by James Abernethy & Co., Aberdeen in 1892. Its deck, stiffened by lattice truss parapets, is suspended from steel wire-rope cables supported on latticed towers.
A similar footbridge of 165 ft span by J. Abernethy & Co. was erected in 1905 at Cambus o’ May (NO 4210 9770). They are both good examples of the generation of suspension bridges constructed in north-east Scotland from 1890 to 1925.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
