Old Photograph Bonhill Bridge Alexandria Scotland

Old photograph of Bonhill Bridge over the River Leven in Alexandria, a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The first bridge was built in 1836 and was a light weight suspension bridge with a single span between stone arched abutments on the river bank. The bridge was often referred to as the Bawbee Bridge as the Scottish term for a half penny, the price of the toll, was Bawbee. The bridge was replaced in 1898, three years after the tolls were removed, by a steel arch truss bridge, which carried the road and tramways over the river.



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