A local-history account dates the bridge's opening to 1852 and says it became toll-operated in 1876. It describes the bridge as a route for workers, miners, schoolchildren and visitors, with a foot toll and reduced passes. These details, including the locally remembered name “Pey Brig”, rely on retrospective reporting and require confirmation from contemporary toll books, newspaper reports and company records. Blantyre Project

The local-history accounts say the first bridge was demolished in 1949 and a steel replacement opened in 1952; that bridge was removed in 1999. They date the present pedestrian bridge to October 1999. The NLS handbook establishes the first bridge's existence by 1862, while the later sequence currently rests on the local-history compilation. A 2008 photograph independently documents the present steel footbridge at the crossing, but does not establish its construction date. Local chronology

This site belongs to the wider history of river crossings and industrial landscape. The Haughhead Bridge carried a road over the Clyde elsewhere in the historic parish, and the Bothwell, Blantyre and Uddingston Local Nature Reserve now encompasses the river corridor and former industrial ground.

The present footbridge

The steel David Livingstone Memorial footbridge crossing the Clyde above the weir, with wooded banks.
David Livingstone Memorial footbridge at the Clyde weir, 19 July 2008. Photograph by Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source and attribution.
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