Friday, 31 July 2026
Union Chain Bridge
TheEnglish side.
The life size statue seated on the left is of Captain Samuel Brown.
He was a British Royal Navy officer who designed innovative cables
for ships made from iron chains.
The Union Chain Bridge or Union Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the River Tweed between Horncliffe, Northumberland, England and Fishwick, Berwickshire, Scotland. It is four miles (6.4 km) upstream of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
When it opened in 1820 it was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world with a span of 449 feet (137 m), and the first vehicular bridge of its type in the United Kingdom. Although work started on the Menai Suspension Bridge earlier, the Union Bridge was completed first. The suspension bridge, which is a Category A listed building in Scotland, is now the oldest to be still carrying road traffic.
Slightly Foxed 🦊📘
“To celebrate the life of Dr Simon Heald
Proprietor of Slightly Foxed Bookshop,
31 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed”
Barter Books
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away,
for, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Song of Solomon 2:10
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