While the statues which were also blown from the bridge into the river were retrieved and replaced once the war was over, the ornate parapet was replaced with the much plainer one you can see today and the debris from the original one was left where it fell.
Remains of the original parapet of the Kelvin Way Bridge in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow lying on a gravel bank at the side of the river that passes beneath it. The bridge was built in the 1910s, and was badly damaged by a bomb dropped during the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941.
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Today on Kelvin Way in Glasgow. Luckily, this is the only one of of the many large, mature trees which line it that was lost to Storm Eowyn.
The last of the Autumn leaves are still clinging to the trees which line Kelvin Way in Glasgow, but one good blast of wind and that'll be them naked until Springtime rolls around once more.
I came across these two magpies having a square go at each other on Kelvin Way over the weekend while their friends watched from a nearby tree, egging them on and shouting encouragements. Or at least that's the way it seemed.
Looking up Kelvin Way in the west end of Glasgow in an early morning fog. I love walking along this road, especially at this time of year.
Are the lamps on Kelvin Way Bridge the most ornate street lights in Glasgow? I think they might just be!
Sculpted by Paul Raphael Montford between 1914 and 1924, these lamps consist of four allegorial groups of larger than life figures representing eight aspects of Glasgow civil society: Peace and War, Navigation and Shipbuilding, Commerce and Industry; and Philosophy and Inspiration (the pair shown here).
