I like mysteries and this was a good one to solve. When this picture was shared with me, it was just titled “4 men at a culvert“. However, it is definitely Blantyre related and I recognised the location. This is the Flag Bridge up at Letterick, just beyond Stoneymeadow. The barrelled culvert collapsed or broke […]
I recently met up with Alex Rochead during April and we got round to talking about “The Flag Bridge” at Letterick. I was puzzled at Alex’s reference that the underside was a round culvert, when my distinct recollection of it was of stone slabs forming the underside of the bridge, hence the name, “The Flag […]
Whilst researching the history of a nearby building, I recently found a description about Mid Letterick about third mile North of Crossbasket, that mentioned it was the home of “The Flag Bridge“. This name, being new to me and although just outside the Parish and no more, I decided to look at. This proved difficult […]