East Kilbride Probus Club latest speaker bridges the gap with talk
dailyrecord.co.ukThe latest speaker at East Kilbride Probus Club made sure his talk wasn't a bridge too far. President Jim Ballantyne opened the meeting and carried out of the club business.This included in acknowledging that our member, Harvey Littlejohn, reaching the ripe old age of 97.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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All of this appears in his book, “Bridgescapes”.He started his slide show with the Fallen Bridge near Langholm dated 1873, quickly followed by the Skye Bridge of 1958 known as ‘the second bridge across the Atlantic’.Next was a picture of a rainstorm in the Cairngorms in 1962/63 which washed away a bridge.While in that region, he showed what was a very early bridge, which is still standing and used, built in 1320, called The Elphinstone over the River Don in Aberdeenshire.Next was of the oldest viaduct, The Milton viaduct built by the Duke of Portland to take coal from his Ayrshire mines to
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