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136 years ago today. The Forth Bridge was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #Queensferry #ForthBridge

A driver's eye view of the Forth Bridge...

#Scotland #trains #ForthBridge

https://youtu.be/XKqq9DQBrEw?si=WyI8XpmkCZ5ZpAdk&t=2344

The amazing view south from the top of the north cantilever of the Forth Bridge, the first of three great bridges built in three different centuries that cross this part of the Firth of Forth. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #Queensferry #Edinburgh

Ceò-mara a' gèilleadh is an drochaid air-ais againn.

The haar giving us back our bridge.

#MeerMittwoch #ForthBridge #Edinburgh #Queensferry #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #FirthOfForth

Train window on the way to Dundee!

#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Scotland #ForthBridge

Forth Bridge from the North West, Fife, c.1905-10 - McCulloch Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/forth-bridge-from-the-north-west-fife-c-1905-10-mcculloch-postcard-223220027.htm

#ForthBridge #NorthQueensferry

Forth Bridge, South Queensferry, West Lothian, c.1940s - RA Series RP Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/forth-bridge-south-queensferry-west-lothian-c-1940s-ra-series-rp-postcard-223181270.htm

#SouthQueensferry #ForthBridge

The Eiffel Tower gets bigger every summer – here’s why.

The structure known today as the Eiffel Tower was originally dubbed the Tour de 300 mètres, the 300-metre tower. The name was proposed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nougier to Gustave Eiffel, who oversaw the tower’s construction.

On hot days, the Eiffel Tower grows by 12-15cm, and leans away from the sun.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250806-the-eiffel-tower-gets-bigger-every-summer-heres-why?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#EiffelTower #Engineering #Construction #Paris #France #ForthBridge #GarabitViaduct

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge

Scottish Skyline: From Spires to Bridges

A beautiful sunset pictured from our apartment in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. The weather was glorious that week! It hardly rained at all!

Did you know that the Forth Bridge, visible just left of centre, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was the world’s longest cantilever railway bridge when it opened in 1890? It’s still a marvel of Victorian engineering that stands proud on the Scottish skyline.

#a8ctravel #cityscape #clouds #dusk #Edinburgh #ForthBridge #Landscape #Photo #Photography #Scotland #silhouette #Sky #skyline #Sun #sunset

@StockbridgeArch Forth Bridge, please! (It was the first high-level crossing of the Firth of Forth; the other two came much later and were given descriptive names. The original bridge, being unique, has always been "The Forth Bridge".)

#ForthBridge

Beul na h-oidhche, beul na h-aibhne.

Some braws sunsets on the Firth.

#MeerMittwoch #Scotland #FirthOfForth #Edinburgh #Queensferry #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #ForthBridge #MastoDaoine

Happy 135th birthday to our favourite bridge, the Forth Bridge, which fittingly featured on our 4th edition cover. #ForthBridge

Cailleach na Linne
Ceann-bliadhna 135 an-diugh.

135 years old today.

#ForthBridge #FirthOfForth #Edinburgh #Queensferry #Scotland #bridge #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine

An Innis Garbh
Na laighe air cul na drochaide agus tùr Banrigh na Gòrta.

Inchgarvie lying behind the Forth Bridge agus the Famine Queen clock tower.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #FirthOfForth #ForthBridge #Queensferry #Edinburgh #MastoDaoine #Scotland

Gath grèine, cidhe a' Chas Chaolais.

Ray of Sunday. South Queensferry old harbour.

#Queensferry #FirthOfForth #Scotland #ForthBridge #SilentSunday #Edinburgh #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Gaelic

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge

Made From Girders.

A few months back and a trip to Inchcolm Island in the Firth of Forth took us under the bridge.

#ForthBridge #Scotland

Photo by Paul.

Eine neue Podcast-Folge ist online!

Über die Forth Bridge. Die ikonische, rote Eisenbahnbrücke über den Firth of Forth bei Edinburgh.
Sie ist eines der bekanntesten Postkartenmotive Schottlands und eine von drei Brücken über die Mündung des Flusses Forth. Spannend ist wie sie zustande kam und wie sie so gebaut wurde.
https://www.meinschottland.de/2024/11/24/msc019-die-forth-bridge/

#MeinSchottland #Podcast #Schottland #ForthBridge #Eisenbahn #FirthOfForth

The amazing view south from the top of the north cantilever of the Forth Bridge, the first of three great bridges built in three different centuries that cross this part of the Firth of Forth. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Bridge #UndiscoveredScotland

Là samhraidh is a leithid gann a' bhliadhnasa.
Bhon a' Chas Chaolas is seann làrach VAT69.

A rare seasonal day from a barbershop in a former whisky plant.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Queensferry #Edinburgh #ForthBridge #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #summer #Scotland #whisky

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

Innis Garbhaidh air a dochann le Caitlin agus a cuid shiantan.

Storm Kathleen sending white horses and seaspray to attack the former war buildings on Inchgarvie.

#StormKathleen #FirthOfForth #ForthBridge #Edinburgh #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Scotland #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #weather

134 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

134 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

134 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

134 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

134 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often known as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

This spring there is a series of webinars about individual World Heritage Sites. The one for the Forth Bridge is on 8th February.

#WorldHeritage #IndustrialHistory #IndustrialArchaeology #Bridges #RailwayBridge #ForthBridge

World Heritage UK’s 2024 webinar # 2 – The Forth Bridge | World Heritage UK https://worldheritageuk.org/events/21526/

This spring there is a series of webinars about individual World Heritage Sites. The one for the Forth Bridge is on 8th February.

#WorldHeritage #IndustrialHistory #IndustrialArchaeology #Bridges #RailwayBridge #ForthBridge

World Heritage UK’s 2024 webinar # 2 – The Forth Bridge | World Heritage UK https://worldheritageuk.org/events/21526/

This spring there is a series of webinars about individual World Heritage Sites. The one for the Forth Bridge is on 8th February.

#WorldHeritage #IndustrialHistory #IndustrialArchaeology #Bridges #RailwayBridge #ForthBridge

World Heritage UK’s 2024 webinar # 2 – The Forth Bridge | World Heritage UK https://worldheritageuk.org/events/21526/

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #RiverForth #Queensferry #Edinburgh #Fife #UndiscoveredScotland

Sùil gu tuath.
Looking north.

#SouthQueensferry #Edinburgh #ForthBridge #Fife #Gàidhlig #FotoMontag #CelticArt #CasChaolas

133 years ago today. The Forth Bridge, now often know as the Forth Rail Bridge, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, on 4 March 1890. At the time it was seen as the eighth wonder of the world. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #Queensferry #ForthEstuary #UndiscoveredScotland

Oidhche Nollaig air an Linne.
Christmas Eve on the Firth.

#Nollaig #ForthBridge #Edinburgh #Queensferry #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #nightphotography

The Forth Bridge, also known as the Forth Rail Bridge, seen from the harbour at Queensferry or South Queensferry. This was the first of three major bridges built across this part of the Firth of Forth in three different centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/southqueensferry/index.html

#Scotland #ForthBridge #ForthRailBridge #FirthOfForth #Queensferry #SouthQueensferry #Harbour #UndiscoveredScotland

The thread about Leith’s lost “Eagle Buildings” and what connects them to the building of the Forth Bridge

This thread was originally written and published in September 2020.

I saw a photo tweeted by the excellent Scran resource and was struck by the coincidence that I had looked the place up only a few days before when I had come across some other photos of it on Flickr.

https://twitter.com/Scranlife/status/1308652327373606912?s=20&t=RiEzrm-6XhDoBt2_yhUtig

The Eagle Buildings were at 5 Tower Street in Leith, next to the Sailor’s Home (now Malmaison Hotel).

Here they are in 1992, when it was being used as a workshop and store by a shopfitter. The photographer suggests demolition was in 1997.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiva1994/14016906377/

Most of that “sandstone” front was mock and was actually a showcase of the Portland cement wares of its occupants, Currie & Co. Ltd, Building-Trade Merchants in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leith and across the Scottish central belt.

Currie & Co, Ltd. had been incorporated in April 1898 by the merger of two similar building supply and cement merchant businesses owned by John Patrick Currie:

• Currie & Co. of Glasgow, founded in 1873, headquartered in Wellington Street. Subsidiary companies included the North British Asphalt Company, the North British Coal and Firewood Company and the Eagle Portland Cement Co. This is the eagle connection; it was a brand to sell cement.
• Joseph A. Currie & Co. of Edinburgh and Leith, founded in 1875 and headquartered in Bernard Street in Leith. This business had been bought in 1893 by John Patrick on the death of his brother Joseph Allan at the age of only 42.

This 1911 advert reveals that they had a lineage going back to the late 18th century through A. M. Ross & Sons, slate merchants in Glasgow.

The headquarters had moved from Glasgow to 19 Rose Street in Edinburgh around this time, that building too was called the Eagle Buildings and it remains so to this day. If you crane your neck and look up as you pass, you’ll see an eagle watching over you high above in its “eerie”.

Joseph Allan Currie was born in Cupar, Fife, in 1851. At the age of only 21 he was appointed manager of the Waltham Abbey Gas Works in London. He returned north and settled in Leith two years later, bringing with him a new trade of Portland cement merchant. Cement was not manufactured in Scotland at the time, but was imported from the Medway. Leith was therefore the perfect base for such a venture. Joseph Allan added plaster of Paris, pavement stone, lime, fireclay and earthenware to this business, becoming a successful builders merchant, growing the business to become one of the largest in Scotland. In 1894 his company was reported as being the largest suppliers of roofing felt in the region; an increasingly popular product due to the increasing cost of roofing slate and timber.

His obituary described him as having “indefatigable energy, strong personality and business tact“. Joseph was remarkable as being the sole suppliers of Portland cement for both the Forth Bridge works and the ill-fated first Tay Bridge.

The construction of the Forth Bridge required some 20,000 tons of Portland cement, which was manufactured on the River Medway and was brought by sea to South Queensferry. Here it was transferred to an old hulk that Currie had purchased called the Hougomont; a ship that had been built in Burma as a convict transport for Australia. The Hougomont could store 1,200 tons of cement, which had to be stored for a certain number of days before it was used. When smallpox broke out amongst the workers in 1886, the Hougomont was moved to Port Edgar and used as an isolation hospital, helping the outbreak to be quickly dealt with.

John Patrick Currie – born 1848 – continued to run the business and became the largest Scottish building merchant and cement distributor, Scottish agents for I. C. Johnson & Co. Isaac Charles Johnson and his business partner had painstakingly reverse-engineered existing cement products, improved them and then produced a different product that they were careful to make sure was not subject to existing patents.

An 1894 description of the company in a trade publication states:

The commodities which Messrs. Currie & Co. deal in principally are: Portland cement, Scotch and Irish limes, pavement, freestone, crushed granite, Arran sand, slates, fireclay goods, barytes, umber, plaster of Paris, whiting, &c. In all these lines Messrs. Currie & Co. hold large stocks, and are ready to meet any demands with promptitude. Their standing is accepted as a guarantee of quality, and they spare no effort to maintain their high reputation for reliable material. The business in every department receives the direct personal attention of its founder and sole proprietor, Mr. John P. Currie, a gentleman whose commercial capabilities are well demonstrated in the success that has attended this influential concern. The business in which Mr. Currie is now so actively engaged derives its support from a thoroughly representative and increasing connection, and continues to develop.

Rivers of the North – Their Cities and their Commerce.

It seems that the Curries named nearly all their properties Eagle Buildings, with at least 3 in Glasgow.

John Patrick died at home in Edinburgh in March 1919 at the age of 71. After his death, the company seems to have moved its headquarters to another Eagle Buildings, this time in Dock Street, Dundee. By this time it was an agent for the Cement Marketing Company, which would eventually rename itself after its most famous product; Blue Circle Portland Cement. The company was still trading in 1953, after which the trail in newspaper archives goes cold.

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