1 West Bridge Street
56°23′57″N 3°25′24″W / 56.39928°N 3.423459°W / 56.39928; -3.423459
![1 West Bridge Street is located in Perth](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Location_map_Scotland_Perth.png/235px-Location_map_Scotland_Perth.png)
![1 West Bridge Street](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png)
1 West Bridge Street is an historic building in the Bridgend area of Perth, Scotland. A former tollbooth building, it is a Category C listed building dating to around 1800[1] and is located on the southern side of the eastern end of Perth Bridge. The part of the building that curved around onto Commercial Street has been demolished.[1]
It was one of three toll houses in Perth, the others being on the Edinburgh and Dundee Roads (the latter being the Barnhill Tollhouse). A bye-law on the building's noticeboard specified that locomotives crossing the bridge had to be preceded by a flagbearer. The law was enacted after a locomotive with spiked wheels damaged the road surface.[2]
After its original use, it was J. I. Laing's fruiter, fishmonger and poulterer (as of 1911)[3] and J. S. Lees Fish & Poultry Shop later in its life.[4]
See also
References
- v
- t
- e