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Yeaman Place Bridge, Union Canal, Edinburgh

Early in 2008 British Waterways added little number plates to three girder bridges in the Merchiston area of Edinburgh that did not date from the building of the Union Canal but were constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. The number 1 (the oval plate can be seen on the left-hand abutment) was given to Yeaman Place bridge, which connects that road with Polwarth Crescent on the south side, although it is today the third bridge along the canal. By this reckoning the bridge at Viewforth, an ornamented original bridge, would be number 0 and the Leamington Lift Bridge would be minus 1! Bridges 2 and 3 are at Harrison Park, which replaced an earlier bridge slightly to the west, and Ashley Terrace, built in 1904 on the site of the original bridge.