Old Photograph Craigellachie Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of men salmon fishing below Craigellachie Bridge, a cast iron arch bridge across the River Spey at Craigellachie, near to the village of Aberlour located twelve miles South of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The ironwork was cast at the Plas Kynaston iron foundry at Cefn Mawr, near Ruabon in Denbighshire, Wales by William Hazledine, who cast a number of thomas Telford bridges. The ironwork was transported from the foundry through the Ellesmere Canal and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct then by sea to Speymouth, where it was loaded onto wagons and taken to the site. The bridge inspired a popular Strathspey, written by William Marshall in 1814. t was also the site of a parade upon the amalgamation of The Gordon Highlanders and The Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth and Camerons, to form The Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, in 1994. Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada, is named after the Scottish village of the same name and is the place where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in November 1885. Craigellachie has two malt whisky distilleries, Craigellachie and The Macallan, and is home to the Speyside Cooperage.



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