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Pier no. 4: Looking North

Board of Trade1879/1880

National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

North-facing photograph of a ruined pier. Part of a series of 91 black-and-white photographs of the wrecked piers of the Tay Bridge, which collapsed because of high winds on 28 December 1879. The series shows destroyed piers and girders, wreckage of the train and steam engine, and other parts salvaged from the Tay.

[Shelfmark Phot.la.17 - Image 17 of 91]

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