Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Leuchars near St Andrews in Fife to cross 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. In Leuchars we drive past St Athernase Church and cemetery. The chancel and half round apse of the church date from the 12th century with the exterior featuring blind arcades with typical Norman arches. The church, dedicated to the little known St Athernase, was granted by Ness, Lord of Lochore, to the canons of St Andrews in 1185. Around 1700 a belfry was added, and in 1858 restoration was carried out to the nave. The A914 road then heads North to the A92 road and across the Tay Road Bridge to Dundee. 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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