NLS recently emailed me regarding their digital resources, following which I found connections to Middlesbrough.
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| Recovered girder section of the Tay Bridge, by Hopkins, Gilkes & Co, Middlesbrough 1877 (in National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh) |
Archive photos of two Scottish railway bridges are available - the Forth Bridge being constructed 1886-7, & Bouch's Tay Bridge after its downfall in 1879.
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| NBR 224 after retrieval from the Tay ('The Diver' was rebuilt & based at Redesmouth to avoid a repeat) |
The NLS Moving Image Archive contains hundreds of interesting films, available online. Use the Search & Browse facility to find films of interest.
Please read the synopsis as well as the film title. For example, Tram Routes in Glasgow & Steam Railways is 82 minutes long, with many sequences of Glasgow trams. However, the film maker also spent time around Middlesbrough:
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| About 7 mins in is a Barclay at Middlesbrough - what & where is this? |
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| About 29 mins in is John H Amos on the Tees - now the last paddle tug in the UK There's a steam crane & works yard shown before & after the paddler - any idea where? |
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Thanks for this interesting post. The photo of NBR No. 224 was taken by John Valentine of Dundee, one of several dozen photographs of the remains recovered from the collapse of the Tay Bridge. 224 was repaired in 1880 and then rebuilt again in 1885 (as a compound) 'simpled' in 1887 and reboilered in 1897. Records show it working between Glasgow and Edinburgh in the 1880s and Glasgow to Kinross and Perth thereafter. The story that 224 was not driven over the Tay Bridge again is, I believe, a legend. It was 224's twin, 264, which worked in the Borders and elsewhere.
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