Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . O M h-l iz; ^ ^ o cq n; m Q to J o hi w w p H o [^ t1 o Q g Q «! ^ w s Q :i; H X TJie Brisr PorL 155 Mr. William Brown, late of Kilniardinny, I am indebted for the annexedmost interesting and hitherto unpublished view of the old bridge, takenby his father, Mr. James Brown. The date of the drawing is probablysomewhere about the year 1776, by which time the two northmost. arches had been built up, but the bridge had not yet been repairedand widened.^ The illustration is specially interesting as being now
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . O M h-l iz; ^ ^ o cq n; m Q to J o hi w w p H o [^ t1 o Q g Q «! ^ w s Q :i; H X TJie Brisr PorL 155 Mr. William Brown, late of Kilniardinny, I am indebted for the annexedmost interesting and hitherto unpublished view of the old bridge, takenby his father, Mr. James Brown. The date of the drawing is probablysomewhere about the year 1776, by which time the two northmost. arches had been built up, but the bridge had not yet been repairedand widened.^ The illustration is specially interesting as being now printed from theoriginal copperplate etched by Mr. James Brown himself. Whether theport or arch which forms so striking an object in this view is the originalBrig Port I do not know. Mr. Brown was an accomplished draughts-man, and the etching may be accepted as a faithful representation ofwhat the old bridge was twenty-five years before the end of the lastcentury. ^ The contract with Shaw, the mason, to widen the bridge was concluded in October, 1775, and asin May, 1778, there is a minute of council as to causewaying the bridge, the work was probably com-pleted in that year. 156 Fortification of the City. I have mentioned that before 1776 the bridge had become so insecurethat carts and heavy carriages passed the river by a ford. The order bythe magistrates was that only coaches and chaises should pass by thebridge, and Mr. Browns drawing is valuable as
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