Findhorn Bridge

This wonderful 1926 bridge was designed by legendary concrete architect Sir Owen Williams, fairly early on in his esteemed career. One of many concrete bridges Williams designed in Scotland.

The bridge spans the River Findhorn and was once part of the main A9 trunk road between Perth and Inverness. Indeed it replaced a Thomas Telford structure on the same site. Now the main A9 transverses the river further east on a large viaduct as a dual carriageway, leaving this lovely bridge for local traffic.

It is included in the National Monuments of Scotland list, providing for me a sense of nostalgic archeology for the journeys and lives which must have crossed throughout the years. There is also something POSTPEAKCARTASTIC about road infrastructure being on the national monuments list. I wonder if Williams later work on the first sections of M1 & M45 bridge architecture will be honoured in the years to come...

As ever times change and evolve, but the concrete remains the same...