Latest Red Wheel Sites
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| Annandale Street bus garage, Edinburgh | 18/07/1905 |
ANNANDALE STREET BUS GARAGE A 1922 exhibition hall converted in 1926 to an Edinburgh Corporation bus depot.Now the home of Britain’s largest municipal bus company. |
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| Victoria Swing Bridge, Edinburgh | 18/07/1905 |
VICTORIA SWING BRIDGE Completed 1874 to carry both road and rail traffic over the Water of Leith. Scotland’s largest counter- weighted swing bridge |
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| Kelvin Aqueduct & Maryhill locks | 18/07/1905 |
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| Inchinnan Bascule Bridge | 18/07/1905 |
Opened 1923 to a rare design by William Scherzer, the bridge enabled much increased road and river traffic at the White Cart |
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| A82 Tyndrum to Glencoe Village | 18/07/1905 |
This road, built between 1928 and 1932, replaced an unsurfaced track and is an outstanding example of work to open up the Highlands to motor traffic |
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| Leith Tramways Depot, Edinburgh | 18/07/1905 |
This 1938 Modern Movement building held offices for the tram depot that stood behind it, where electric trams were stabled until 1956. |
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| Volks Electric Railway, Brighton | 18/07/1905 |
Opened in 1883 by Brighton-born inventor and engineer Magnus Volk. The oldest operational electric railway in the world |
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| Union Chain Bridge | 18/07/1905 |
When erected in 1820 to the design of Cdr. Samuel Brown RN, a pioneer in chain making, this was the longest wrought iron suspension bridge in the world. |
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| Blackbushe Airport | 18/07/1905 |
Opened 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge, later BLACKBUSHE AIRPORT. From 1946, hosted many independent airlines before closure in 1960. Reopened 1962.
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| RNAS & RAF East Fortune Airfield | 17/07/1905 |
RNAS & RAF EAST FORTUNE Fine example of a First and Second World War airfield. |
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