Let’s go back 120 years. The location is known. A wee boy is photographed sitting by the edge of the Rotten Calder river under the earlier stone built Milheugh Bridge. Barefoot, he’s kicked off his boots (which due to other photos, I know are slightly out the picture to the left).
This bridge was demolished in the 1950’s and even by the time this photo was taken in 1905, this bridge was considered old. The river is fairly low, with no water flowing through the smaller arch, which is in the exact location of the smaller arch of today’s modern bridge.
I wonder what this boy would have made of so many people looking at this image, well over a Century later! This wee boy, and any children he had as a young father, will have now lived out their entire lives.
