3-074-564 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Border Sketches: Berwick-Upon-Tweed, 1883. 'I. The North Coast, from end of the Pier. 2. A Bit of the old Castle. 3. Berwick Castle (sketched in 1844). 4. The Castle from the West, showing the Railway Bridge. 5. The Ness Gate and Lighthouse. 6. Berwick, from the south bank of the Tweed. 7. Remains of the Castle (looking west). The town, of which and of the Castle ruins, with portions of the ramparts, we give some Illustrations, is familiar to every passenger who goes to Scotland by the Great Northern and North British Railway route. Its site rises to the height of 100 ft. above the water at the mouth of the Tweed, having a suburb called Tweedmouth on the opposite south bank close to the sea. Our View (No. 6) of "Berwick from the south bank of the Tweed," shows the lofty railway bridge over the river, 104 ft. above low-water mark, 2160 ft. in length, with twenty-eight arches, fourteen of which stand in the river-bed, while just below this high-level bridge is the old town bridge, of no particular height, with fifteen irregular arches and a narrow roadway...The trade of this port has much increased of late years; and the convenience of shipping has been provided for by constructing a very commodious dock for vessels'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.