Description

“The Tay Bridge Disaster”. Four page Tay Bridge 100th Anniversary Special published by the Courier and Advertiser (Dundee). Page 1 reprints a contemporay article on how the bridge may have fallen down. Pages 2-3 reproduce the edition of the Dundee Courier and Argus dated 30 December 1879.

Also donated with the cutting are:

• Ship salvaging the wreckage of the Tay Bridge. Photograph of men on a ship salvaging wreckage of the collapsed first Tay Bridge, with other boats and men in the background
• a copy of a photograph showing damage on a pier base (c.1880)