Old photograph of bridge over the River Eachaig is a river on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll, Scotland. The old route from Inveraray to the Firth of Clyde involved travelling down Loch Eck, then crossing the River Eachaig to get to Dunoon, Mary Queen of Scots went this way in 1563. A small boat or punt called a coite carried passengers over the river, and the thatched house of the ferryman became known as the Cot House, eventually the Cot House Inn. Around 1835 David Napier built a road from Kilmun pier to Loch Eck as part of the " new route to Inveraray ", and at this time the ferry was replaced by a wooden bridge. This in time needed replaced, and around the end of 1884 the Trustees of the Dunoon District of Roads, Argyllshire, arranged for engineers and contractors to construct a new malleable iron girder bridge spanning 70 feet over the river; this bridge was completed in May 1885.
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