The Happy Pontist

Sir John Fowler is best known (with Sir Benjamin Baker) as one of the engineers responsible for the Forth Railway Bridge, completed in 1890,...

Hello readers. I'm back. Did I miss anything while I was away? Anyway ... Bridging the Tweed  (self-published, ISBN 978-1-5272-538...

This the second of three "souvenir" books about recent major bridges in the UK that I'm going to feature here. The Queensfer...

Bridgescapes  (Dunnottar Productions Limited, 184pp, 2017) is a timely survey of Scotland's bridge heritage, published to coincide with ...

This is the third of three flood-damaged bridges that I visited on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire during August 2016. When I visited in 20...

This is the second of three damaged bridges that I visited on the River Dee in Scotland during August 2016. Built in 1834 and modified in ...

A couple of weeks ago, I visited the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, and returned to three bridges which I had previously seen in the Summer of ...

Here is a lovely work of special-interest history. River, Railway and Ravine  ( The History Press , 2015, 164pp) [ amazon.co.uk ] document...

Out of many bridge guidebooks in my collection, Gillian Nelson's Highland Bridges  (Aberdeen University Press, 224pp, 1990) [ amazon.c...

Many thanks to Moxon Architects for sending me through some images of a pedestrian suspension bridge they have designed with Flint and Neill...