Materials relating to Tay Bridge Disaster

Explanation of connection of Tay Bridge Disaster materials to Scrymgeour family, detailing the story of James Lesslie leading up to his death in the disaster. Also contains copies of the poems of James Thomson, Alice Scrymgeour's brother, that were in his posession Verses written by James Thomson, recovered from James Lesslie's body including three copies of Come and Gone, 1879. Newspaper cutting about verses and how they were found, n.d. Article titled 'A Memento of the Tay Bridge Disaster', nd Newspaper cutting of the verse Come and Gone, n.d. In Memorium to James Lesslie, aged 22, mentioning his death in the Tay Bridge Disaster, recovery of his remains on 8th January and burial in Balgay cemetery, 1879. A picture of the new Tay Rail Bridge being built beside the old one, 1883.

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