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A painting of Union Chain Bridge by Alexander Nasmyth c. 1820. Before the opening of the Union Bridge, crossing the river at this point involved an 11-mile (18 km) round trip via Berwick downstream or a 20-mile (32 km) trip via Coldstream upstream. (Ladykirk and Norham Bridge did not open until 1888.) The Tweed was forded in the vicinity of the ...
Union Bridge is a bridge on Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the largest single-span granite bridge in the world, at 130 feet (40 metres). It was built by Thomas Fletcher under some influence from Thomas Telford .
Version 2.0 of Google Maps Mobile was announced at the end of 2007, with a stand out My Location feature to find the user's location using the cell towers, without needing GPS. [ 198 ] [ 199 ] [ 200 ] In September 2008, Google Maps was released for and preloaded on Google's own new platform Android.
Union Bridge may refer to: Union Bridge, Ottawa, in Canada, a predecessor of the Chaudière Bridge; Union Bridge, Aberdeen, in Scotland; Union Bridge, Tweed, between England and Scotland; Union Bridge, Maryland, a town in the United States Union Bridge Historic District; Union Bridge Company, a former American bridge builder
Road bridge across the Forth and Clyde Canal: Tradeston Bridge: Tradeston and IFSD : 2009: Footbridge, known colloquially as the Squiggly Bridge: Victoria Bridge: Central Glasgow (Stockwell Street) and Laurieston: 1854: Cat A: Road bridge , sometimes referred to as Stockwell Bridge; adjacent to City Union Bridge
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It was named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell in a ceremony on 12 July 1995, who had discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the Union Canal in 1834. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Russell had observed a bow wave continue to travel forward at a speed of 8 or 9 miles per hour (13 or 14 km/h) when a boat stopped moving, and ...
Roman Britain with Watling Street highlighted in red. The section of the A5 between London and Shrewsbury is roughly contiguous with one of the principal Roman roads in Britain: that between Londinium (modern-day London) and Deva (modern-day Chester), which diverges from the present-day A5 corridor at Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) near Shrewsbury.