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132 Duncan McNaughton Ballantyne is published also in the Stirling Society Transactions, in two parts, part I in volume 49 pages 144-185 on changes in the central part of the burgh, and part II in volume 50 pages 85-109 on changes in the various districts into which he divided the burgh, the Craigs, St Ninians, Wellgreen, Burgh Muir. (3) Campbell’s paper has the story of the Black Boy. (4) We published ‘The Kinrosses of Stirling and Dunblane’ including the story of the Coachworks in the Forth Naturalist and Historian volume 21 pages 97-108.
Forth Naturalist and Historian, volume 22 133 BRIDGES OF THE RIVER FORTH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES Louis Stott Introduction The Forth is bridged by more distinguished bridges than most rivers, and they are insufficiently celebrated. Stirling Old Bridge occupies a particular place in the affections of all Scots, and has played a notable part in the history of the country. The Forth Road Bridge at Kincardine-on-Forth was the largest swing bridge in the world when built in 1936. The Forth Rail Bridge by Fowler and Baker remains, well over a hundred years after it began to be built, one of the engineering wonders of the world. The Brig o’ Forth at Aberfoyle is steeped in spurious associations with ‘Rob Roy’. The Forth Road Bridge is one of the finest examples of modern engineering in Britain, and there are a number of others which, anywhere else, would receive a good deal of attention. Robert Stevenson’s Stirling Bridge of 1931, Drip Bridge, Cardross Bridge, and Bridge o` Frew all have considerable interest; indeed there is no bridge over the Forth without its attractions. The tributaries of the Forth are bridged by a dozen further notable bridges; Brig o’ Turk in the heart of the Trossachs, Bracklinn Brig, hurled dramatically across a roaring waterfall; and Rumbling Bridge on the Devon, double-decked like the famous Pont du Diable in the St Gothard Pass. Others are of considerable architectural or historical interest, for example, one of Telford’s most spectacular bridges is hardly known beyond the Stirling district, although it is situated in a place renowned throughout the world, Bannockburn. Pontifex Maximus, as Telford was dubbed, carried his arch to its logical conclusion, a full circle, in the gorge of the little village’s Bannock Burn. Bannockburn Bridge is worth seeking out. Other examples include Callander Brig, the ‘ancient’ bridge across the Keltie, and the ‘Roman’ bridge at Kilmahog. See the Appendix for tabled data on the bridges – Table 1 for the Forth and Table 2 for the tributaries – and illustrations of some at the end Bridges of the Lower Forth There is no doubt that the two bridges across the Firth of Forth are remarkable. Two such eminently successful solutions to the same problem, each so characteristic of its generation, cannot be so neatly juxtaposed anywhere else in the world. Both represent the finest architectural and engineering achievements of their day, which are intertwined in them, and, this is the thing about them, they set one another off. Whether the eye is filled with the ponderous grandour of the one, or enraptured by the spidery finesse of the other – and it is possible from the vantage-point of the Hawes Inn to dwell on either. It must be acknowledged that neither of these massive presences detracts from the other, and, whatever superlatives may be applied to the first, more
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THE WEATHER OF 1998 S. J. Harrison
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