North Bridge from Regent Road

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

18442

Title

North Bridge from Regent Road

Artist / maker

Begbie, Thomas

Date

1857

Size

16.4 x 14.8 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

City Art Centre

Copyright

The Cavaye Collection of Thomas Begbie Prints ; The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

Original caption: View of the old North Bridge with the Castle and a part of the Old Town in the background and the beginnings of the Waverley Station in the foreground. Taken from Calton Hill.
The original North Bridge was completed in 1772 to provide access from Edinburgh's Old Town to the planned New Town development in the north of the city. It was widened in the 1870's to accommodate increased traffic, and was finally rebuilt between 1894-7 alongside the development at Waverley. Mid way along the bridge there is a memorial to men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers killed in the Boer War. Its even gradient was designed to make it suitable for tramcars.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

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