Forth Bridge awarded World Heritage Site status

Debbie Clarke

The Forth Bridge has been awarded Unesco World Heritage Site status making it the sixth Scottish landmark to be given the accolade.

The decision was announced at a meeting in Bonn, Germany after the UN’s cultural committee spent more than a year considering its nomination.

World heritage status is given to sites of “outstanding universal value” with the aim of protecting them for future generations.

In terms of cultural significance, the accolade puts the Forth Bridge alongside the Pyramids of Egypt, the great Wall of China and the Sydney Opera House in terms of cultural significance.

The distinctive red landmark has carried trains over the Forth since 1890. The bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry on the outskirts of Edinburgh andSelf-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father’s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what’s rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial striving and violence.

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