An Turas

May 2002

Inscape's part in the Tiree Arts Project was successfully completed in May 2002 when the Bridge element of this visitor attraction was craned out of our workshops and transported up to Oban by lorry.

There to be ferried across the water to the island of Tiree on the west coast of Scotland.
The bridge is the biggest and the most technically difficult project our workshops have produced to date. Weighing nearly 5 tons and measuring over 11 metres in length. The workshops themselves had to be temporarily extended to allow its construction.

The final phase of the project began at 5.45 am on 22.5.02 when the temporary hoarding was removed and the bridge saw the light of day for the first time. Then with the expert assistance of Bow Structural Engineers and MK Crane Hirers the bridge, with great care, was extricated from the workshops and lifted onto the back of the transport lorry provided by Ian Mackinnon Haulage of the Island. They then completed its move northwards where the bridge now awaits the completion of the building phase before being lifted into position facing out across Gott Bay to the Atlantic Ocean beyond.

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