Tour Scotland Autumn Video Thomas Telford Bridge Over River Tay Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of the Thomas Telford Bridge over the River Tay on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Thomas Telford the builder of this bridge was born the son of a shepherd at Westerkirk, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire on 9 August 1757. He was was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, England, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads, a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes, and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he retained for 14 years until his death on 2 September 1834.

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