Inchgarvie Island Exploring Forgotten History

Look out for our next video when we will visit cramond and Inchmickery island.
This visit shaun and andy went to Inchgarvie (also Inchgarvie Island or Inch Garvie) lies beneath the Forth Rail Bridge, where the channel narrows to just a mile (1.5 km) wide between North and South Queensferry. The island occupies a location which was key to the defence of the upper reaches of the Forth estuary and a castle was built here c.1490 by King James IV (1473 - 1513). This served as a state prison between 1519 and 1671. The island was visited by Charles II in 1651, who inspected the fortifications built to resist Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1654), but these were allowed to fall into ruin after Charles' defeat.
Having been rented to Archibald, 1st Earl of Rosebery (1661 - 1723), for an annual fee of one penny in 1707, Inchgarvie was fortified again in 1779 as a response to the appearance of John Paul Jones' Franco-American fleet in the estuary. The island was sold to the Forth Bridge Railway Company for £2700, but its defences were reconstructed once more to protect the Forth Rail Bridge and the nearby Rosyth Dockyard from air-attack during the First and Second World Wars.
Inchgarvie was seen as a key staging point in various plans to bridge the River Forth. Foundations for a railway bridge designed by Sir Thomas Bouch (1822-90) were laid on the island in 1878, but following the Tay Bridge disaster and Bouch's disgrace building was suspended. When, in 1882, work began on a redesigned bridge by William Arrol (1839 - 1913), Benjamin Baker (1840 - 1907) and John Fowler (1817-98), one of the huge cantilevers was centred immediately to the west of Inchgarvie and a pier built to allow foundations to be sunk and the structure to be constructed. Offices, workshops and sleeping accommodation all had to be built on the island to support the construction of the bridge.
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[@DailyLifeandNature]

Good video uploading, thanks for sharing to us such an amazing 😉 view

[@SPIRITVOXPARANORMALDUNDEE]

Thank you daily we waited 4 months for the weather to get better before crossing to film this lovely small island

[@pauloconnor2980]

Great clip of a goods train on the Forth Bridge @ 19:16

[@pauloconnor2980]

The items @34:17 are paint samples from the bridge to test weathering and resistance to corrosion.

[@chasingbonesandspecters]

ty for the look see :)

[@SPIRITVOXPARANORMALDUNDEE]

Any time danny inchkeith is the one I'm looking most forward to that please is huge but as they say keep the best one till last

[@pauloconnor2980]

The other metal things are samples of steel and brackets for the same purpose.

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love its ! congrats on 1k :) i am still on my road !

[@SPIRITVOXPARANORMALDUNDEE]

Thanks Mike you have another one from myself you will get there my friend 👍

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Built 1491 James Iv to stop invasion