This week marks 60 years since the Queen’s Bridge in Perth officially opened.Her Majesty The Queen visited the Fair City on October 10, 1960 for the ceremony which seen the bridge open to vehicles.Since then, it has carried traffic on the A93 over the River Tay. To mark the anniversary, former Perthshire Advertiser harbour correspondant John Aitken has taken a trip down memory lane to look back at the sandboats of the Tay which helped in its construction. John has been helped by Ian Dutch, whose father and grandfather owned a fleet of sandboats at Perth Upper Harbour and whose sandboat Kinfauns supplied all the sand and aggregates for the construction of the bridge.There was a time when fathers and grandfathers could take their sons and.
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