Regent Bridge, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

We met up with some of our old work colleagues for lunch at Howies on Waterloo Place. 

At the begining of the 19th century you couldn't walk straight along from Princes Street to Calton Hill.  In 1815 Archibald Elliot and Robert Stevenson (father of Robert Louis Stevenson) designed a bridge to span the 50 ft chasm. The 'triumphal arch' form of the screens commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. The bridge was officially opened in 1819 during the visit of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg.