Thomas Telford 1757 - 1834 Glendinning Sheep Farm – Shepherd’s cottage site Westerkirk Churchyard – John Telford’s headstone Langholm Bridge c1775-78 Langholm Bridge – mason mark Edinburgh Castle & Glasgow Union Canal terminus 1822 Somerset House, London – Telford 1782-84 Roman Baths at Wroxeter, Salop – Telford drawing 1788 Bridgenorth Church 1792 Bridgenorth Church interior Ullapool, British Fisheries Society c1790 Map of Pulteney Town, Wick Argyll Square, Pulteney Town Montford Bridge Salop 1790-92 Bewdley Bridge 1795-98 Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct, Shrewsbury Canal 1795-96 Chirk Aqueduct, Ellesmere Canal 1796-1801 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Ellesmere Canal 1795-1805 ‘Supreme structural achievement of the Canal Age’ Chirk/Pontcysyllte Aqueducts Telford Inn, Pontcysyllte Telford’s wax seal Kirkcudbright map 1808 The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, 1779 – 80 Buildwas Bridge, Salop – Telford 1796 London Bridge – proposed 600ft cast iron span 1800-01 Tongland Bridge, Kirkcudbright 1804-08 Map of Scotland showing Telford’s work – 1790 - 1834 Bonar Bridge 1810-12 – 150ft span ‘The first significant prefabricated iron bridge’ New Galloway – proposed 150ft span 1811 Craigellachie Bridge 1812-14 ‘The earliest surviving prefabricated iron bridge’ Waterloo Bridge, Bettws-y-coed, cast 1815 Kirkcudbright Bridge – proposed in 1808 Carlisle Bridge – proposed in 1808 Glenshiel Bridge 1817 Dunkeld Bridge 1808 Dunkeld Bridge interior Caledonian Canal – Corpach Sea Lock 1808-12 Caledonian Canal – Neptune’s Staircase 1808-11 ‘this series of locks was then the world’s largest . . . The project significantly advanced canal engineering practice’ Caledonian Canal – Ship in Loch Oich c1830 Caledonian Canal – Long section through Loch Oich Caledonian Canal – Moy Turn-bridge 1820 Caledonian Canal – Locks under repair Caledonian Canal – Fort Augustus Locks c1900 Caledonian Canal – Clachnaharry Sea Lock 1811 Birmingham & Liverpool Junction 1826-35 and other canals Harecastle Tunnel – 1824-27 (nearly 3,000 yds long) Birmingham & Liverpool Junction – Lee Bridge 1826 Birmingham & Liverpool Junction – Stretton Aqueduct Birmingham & Liverpool Junction – High Bridge, Woodseaves Ellesmere & Chester Canal and River Mersey – Ellesmere Port ‘a canal/seaport interchange peak of efficiency of the Canal Age’ Edinburgh & Glasgow Union - Avon Aqueduct 1822 Gotha Canal 1809-32 – map showing 114-mile length St Katharine’s Docks, London 1826-30 ‘technically the most advanced of its time’ Telford’s Roads and Bridges in England Holyhead Road 1815-29 Holyhead Road Telford’s ‘General Rules for Repairing Roads’ 1820 Holyhead Roads – Gates and Milestones Telford’s hand-pitched road foundation (from 1829 drawing) Runcorn Bridge Project Site 1814 Runcorn Bridge – testing wires 1814 Runcorn Bridge model 1814 Runcorn Bridge Project – 1814 Spans 500ft – 1000ft – 500ft Menai Suspension Bridge 1819-26 ‘established this genre as the most economic means of achieving the largest spans’ Menai Bridge Tower Conwy Bridges 1826 The Metal Bridge over the Esk Ecclefechan Bridge 1826 Dinwoodie Toll House 1822-23 Dinwoodie Toll House – Broad eaves Gretna Green Toll House – Marriage House Dorothea Jordan in the farce ‘The Devil to Pay’ Glasgow & Carlisle Road Milestone Dinwoodie Green – G 65: C29½ Beattock Bridge 1819 Telford Church 1825-30 Telford Manse Over Bridge, Gloucester 1826-28 Tewkesbury Bridge 1823-26 Glasgow Bridge 1833-35 Dean Bridge, Edinburgh 1829-32 Dean Bridge Drawing 1832 Dean Bridge interior – descending to springing Dean Bridge interior – crown of arch Dean Bridge slenderness ‘with Glasgow Bridge a fitting crown to Telford’s creative life’ (Gibb) Aberdeen Harbour plan 1831 Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey – Telford’s Gravestone