2019
J3269 : Shaw's Bridge, Belfast (June 2019)
taken 6 years ago, 3 km from Drumbeg, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Shaw's Bridge, Belfast (June 2019)
June 2019 has, mainly, been a wet month with some spells of heavy rain. The view upstream - J3269 : The River Lagan, Shaw's Bridge, Belfast - July 2018(2) shows the bridge and River Lagan during the 2018 drought.
The bridge is thought to have been named after a Cromwellian soldier. “This bridge is named after a Mr Shaw, a captain in Cromwell’s Army who is said to have built a timber bridge across the river hereabouts around 1650. It is captioned as “Shawe’s Bridge” on William Petty’s c.1654 baronial map Belfast” - register of listed buildings.
The bridge is thought to have been named after a Cromwellian soldier. “This bridge is named after a Mr Shaw, a captain in Cromwell’s Army who is said to have built a timber bridge across the river hereabouts around 1650. It is captioned as “Shawe’s Bridge” on William Petty’s c.1654 baronial map Belfast” - register of listed buildings.
Shaw's Bridge, Belfast
Some photographs of and from Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast.
There are two bridges, both called “Shaw’s Bridge” across the River Lagan on the Malone Road/Milltown Road. The first was built in about 1707 and was in use as a road bridge until 1977 when replaced, for motor vehicles, by a concrete structure of four lanes forming part of the Belfast outer ring road. The old bridge remains but restricted to pedestrians and bicycles.