Our Forth Bridge: Made From Girders
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About the Book:
It’s OUR bridge.
Scotland’s famous Forth Bridge spans more than a body of water. It connects centuries, communities, land and sea, past and present.
However, beyond the famous red struts and lattices lies a varied and lively community, every bit as interconnected and interdependent as the girders of the bridge itself. Just like the six-and-a-half million rivets holding the Forth Bridge together, there are countless points of contact between the people who form the Forth Bridge community in its widest sense: engineers and environmentalists, managers, model makers, construction workers, campaigners, tour guides and train drivers.
Writer Barbara Henderson and photographer Alan McCredie lift the curtain on the people who work on the bridge, promote the bridge, protect the bridge, live by it, or play a significant
part in its story.
One sentiment unites them all.
In one way or another, they all claim ‘the Bridge’ as their own.
Reviews:
A wonderful compendium of voices. DONALD S. MURRAY on Scottish by Inclination
A rich mosaic of individual stories. JAMES ROBERTSON on Scottish by Inclination
An honest account of real places and people... a refreshing journey which makes you wonder, what is Scotland to you? THE SKINNY on This is Scotland
About the Authors:
BARBARA HENDERSON is the award-winning author of eight books, and the incoming writer-in-residence at the Forth Rail Bridge. She predominantly writes historical fiction for children, but she also has a track record of writing non-fiction for adults in her critically acclaimed book Scottish by Inclination (Luath Press) which included 30 profiles of EU immigrants contributing to Scottish life in significant ways.
ALAN McCREDIE has been a freelance photographer for a decade, working with most major agencies in Scotland and beyond. He has specialised in theatre and television but is perhaps best known for his documentary and travel photography. A member of the Document Britain photo collective, he is a Perthshire man lost to Leith.