Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Lochy Bridge Scotland
Old photograph of Lochy Bridge over the River Lochy at Fort William, Scotland. Originally a suspension bridge the deck was replaced by a concrete structure but the towers and parapets were retained and it remained a single carriageway. The river flows from Loch Lochy in the Great Glen down to Loch Linnhe. Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area. The town grew in size as a settlement when the fort was constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Fort William is now a major tourist centre, with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the east and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles.
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