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Forth Bridge Construction
View of pumping out Queensferry North West Caisson with men posed, one in the centre, others around the caisson.

Forth Bridge Construction
View over field of the three piers with Inchgarvie pier and island and Fife pier obscured by sea fog.

Forth Bridge Construction
Photograph of the view of south central girder [extending from Inchgarvie cantilever] taken from Queensferry cantilever, showing the gap that needs to be connected between the two. Jubilee crane is in use on the girder.

Forth Bridge Construction
Photograph of a group of three women, a child and three men posed on a small bank. The man on the right of the group is Forth Bridge designer Benjamin Baker.

Forth Bridge Construction
Photograph of workers posed on seabed foundations in Inchgavie south west caisson air chamber.

Forth Bridge Construction
Photograph of riveters posed with a riveting machine on the drill roads.

Forth Bridge Construction
Workers, posed, on sea bed foundations in the Queensferry north west caisson, with William Arrol's (the Forth Bridge contractor) invention, the hydraulic spade (photograph taken in artificially created conditions below water).

Sir John Fowler and Lady Fowler at Braemore
Forth bridge consulting engineer Sir John Fowler and Lady Fowler posed on chair in room at Braemore, Ross-shire.