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Official Opening of The Forth Bridge |
A page from the Programme for the Forth Bridge Official Opening
Benjamin Baker
See 'Reply' below
© Thank you to David Gordon for allowing me to photograph his programme
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The Forth Bridge |
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The Programme Here is one of the pages in the program for the Official Opening of the Forth Bridge on March 4, 1890. This is the cover of the program. Please click here to see all the pages in the programme. |
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Portrait - Who Is It? Who is this portrait of? Like the other two portraits in this programme, it has a wreath around it, in this case of oak leaves. There are the initials, MW, but no name. A little research into the heads of the companies responsible for building the bridge might give the answer to this question. |
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Thank you to David King, railway researcher and webmaster for the Granton HIstory Group web site, who replied: |
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Benjamin Baker "May I suggest that this portrait of Benjamin Baker, joint engineer, and a gentleman with a very distinctive beard More information about Benjamin Baker, and another portrait of him can be found on this Wikipedia web page." David King, Trinity, Edinburgh: May 9, 2011 |