2021

NS9665 : Old Railway Bridge near M8

taken 3 years ago, near to East Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland

Old Railway Bridge near M8
Old Railway Bridge near M8
I had originally assumed, wrongly, that this bridge was built to allow continued passage of an old road or farm track. Old OS maps though, going back to the earliest 1850s one, show that it was actually there to allow a mill lade, or race, to flow uninterrupted to Redmill corn and barley mill - it looks a bit oversized for its purpose to me, but I suppose they didn't do things by halves back then.
Redmill is now the name of the Eastern part of East Whitburn but originally the mill was all that was there.
It didn't provide me with any further information, but an interesting discovery while trying to find out more about the mill, was the existence of an old publication called 'Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland'. This was published annually between the late 1700s and early 1900s and apparently changed its name occasionally over the years. It was basically a Yellow Pages without phone numbers. It also doesn't bother with addresses either, a village name was obviously deemed quite sufficient back then! It could be a handy resource nevertheless, and it can be viewed online at the National Library of Scotland site.

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Geographical Context: Railways Derelict, Disused Primary Subject: Bridge
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · East Whitburn [7] · Bridge [4] · Farm [2] · Mill [2] ·
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NS9665, 27 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 7 May, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 8 May, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 9629 6547 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:52.2719N 3:39.5387W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 9629 6547
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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