7-641: Greig Street Bridge is a footbridge across the River Ness located in Inverness , Scotland. It is a suspension bridge built in 1880–1 by the civil engineer C. Manners in conjunction with the Rose Street Foundry for a cost of £1,400. It is composed of two side spans of 20.4 metres (67 ft) and a central span of 61.3 metres (201 ft). The bridge has warren trusses with an additional railing for pedestrian safety. The cables were replaced in 1952, as were
14-566: Is a short river in the Great Glen of Scotland. It begins at Loch Dochfour , at the northern end of Loch Ness , and flows northeast towards the city of Inverness , where it empties into the Moray Firth . It runs parallel to the Caledonian Canal for the first half of its course, which is six miles (10 km) long in total. At Inverness, the river contains a group of wooded islets known as
21-505: The Ness Islands , some of which are linked to the shore by footbridges. There has been a bridge over the Ness at Inverness since at least the 15th century. The bridge was originally made of timber, but it was rebuilt in stone in 1685. The 1685 bridge endured until 1849, when it was swept away in a flood. J. M. W. Turner painted it before its destruction. The suspension bridge built to replace
28-555: The anchorages in 1989. An important rite of passage for young Invernesians involves getting a third of the way onto the bridge and jumping up and down in unison. This creates the famous Greig Street sine wave, to the delight of the perpetrators and the horror of tourists, giving it, and an identical bridge further upstream, the local nickname of "The Bouncy Bridge". 57°28′45″N 4°13′47″W / 57.4791°N 4.2298°W / 57.4791; -4.2298 River Ness The River Ness ( Scottish Gaelic : Abhainn Nis )
35-726: The bridge of 1685 was itself replaced in 1961 by the present Ness Bridge, a concrete structure. Other noteworthy bridges over the Ness are the Greig Street Bridge and the Infirmary Bridge, two Victorian suspension bridges. The first claimed sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the River Ness in AD 565, when Saint Columba is said to have banished a "water monster" back into the river after it tried to attack one of his disciples who
42-404: Was suffering for his sins at that very moment. After he had finished speaking, two messengers came to tell them that Broichan had a seizure and they wanted Columba to help them. Columba gave them the stone and said to dip it in water to give to Broichan, if he agreed to release the slave-girl. He agreed to do so, and the stone was put in water and it floated on it; the wizard drank from the water and
49-487: Was swimming across the river. According to Adomnán , when Columba visited King Bridei I of Pictland at his house on the River Ness, he met a wizard named Broichan who had an Irish slave-girl that he refused to release even though Columba pleaded with him. Columba went out of Bridei's house and picked up a white pebble from the river. He said that the pebble would be used to heal many sick people in Pictland, and that Broichan
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