The Naismith Bridge, Almondell.

Alexander Naismith (1758 - 1840) was a famous Edinburgh artist who studied at the Royal High School and then under Alan Ramsey. He was also an architect and was employed throughout the country to improve the estates of noblemen. He built the temple of St Bernard's Well - a well known site beside the Water of Leith in Edinburgh. He also built this bridge over the river Almond. There is a beautiful painting of the bridge by him. He was known as ' the father of Scottish landscape painting.' Recently the bridge was in a dangerous state with the parapet falling into the river and a hole where a lorry had fallen through. The Millennium Fund restored it to its full glory.