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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 Street was built to relieve the strain of the small, cramped streets that caused problems for people coming into the city. It was built higher than the old town and was designed to include the five entrances from the city: Queens Road - Rubislaw from Hazelhead; George Street from Inverurie and Morayshire; King Street from the north from Bridge Of Don, Peterhead and Fraserburgh; Market ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
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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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
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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 ...