St. Andrews Suspension Bridge
From the internet:
St Andrew's Suspension Bridge, built 1853-5, Neil Robson, engineer (£6348) to enable workers from Bridgeton and Calton to reach factories in Hutchesontown. The pylons consist of heavy entablatures supported by pairs of Corinthian columns, all of cast-iron. Flat link chains support a light lattice girder span. An attractive and little known structure.
We had an errand to do in the city this afternoon, and afterwards we had a walk in Glasgow Green. We had not been there for a long time, but I had noticed the blips of BriansBlip and thought it would be nice to have a walk there. We had a coffee in the People's Palace after a walk; it was dry although dull but not cold at all.
Added two extras, just because I could! One is Templeton's which was at one time a carpet factory and is a magnificent building, and the other of one of Glasgow's street art murals. Some information on it below:
The mural of St Thenue - who was also known as St Enoch – is painted on a tenement gable wall and shows her surrounded by fishes.
Legend has it that St Thenue had a traumatic upbringing as the princess of a pagan king. As a young, pregnant and unmarried woman in the 6th or 7th century her father ordered her to be hurled from a hill in East Lothian known as ‘Traprain Law’.
When she survived the fall she was put in a small boat and cast adrift in the Firth of Forth to perish. The boat, however, drifted over to Culross in Fife where she was given sanctuary and gave birth to Mungo who later came to Glasgow and founded the Cathedral.
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