Spring Road Trip Drive From Guardbridge To Tay Road Bridge On Visit To Dundee Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Guardbridge near St Andrews in Fife over the Tay Road Bridge on visit to Dundee, Tayside. The A91 road starts outside St Andrews, the A919 road road starts off in Guardbridge and heads north towards Leuchars. The A914 road heads North to the A92 road and across the Tay Road Bridge to Dundee. David Finlay, the most famous villager from Guardbridge, was the son of of a shepherd George Finlay and his wife Susan Small. He was 22 years old, and a lance corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Vross. On 9 May 1915 near Rue du Bois, France, Lance Corporal Finlay led a bombing party of 12 men in the attack until 10 of them had fallen. He then ordered the two survivors to crawl back and he himself went to the assistance of a wounded man and carried him over a distance of 100 yards of fire swept ground into cover, quite regardless of his own safety. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 21 January 1916 and is remembered on the Basra Memorial. The Tay Road bridge which spans the Firth of Tay from Newport on Tay in Fife to Dundee was designed by William Fairhurst and construction began in March 1963 with the infilling of West Graving Dock, King William Dock and Earl Grey docks in Dundee. The construction was undertaken by Duncan Logan Construction Ltd. Controversially, construction required the demolition of Dundee's Royal Arch where Queen Victoria had entered the city on a royal visit. Rubble from the Victoria arch was used as foundations for the on-ramp. The completed bridge was officially opened by the Queen Mother on 18 August 1966.

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