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The current bridge over the River Dee at Kirkcudbright was built in 1926 by the engineers Mouchel, replacing an earlier bridge built in 1868.

Tongland, on the Dee just north of Kirkcudbright, is the largest power station in the Galloway Hydro Electric Power Scheme, producing 33 megawatts. (MW) . It was built in 1935 in the Art Deco style. The turbine hall, houses three 11 MW horizontal-running turbines. Drawing water from Tongland Loch and Loch Ken, power is generated at 11,500V and then stepped up to the 132,000V of the national grid by transformers in a compound behind the photographer. The power station is now operated by Scottish Power remotely from a control centre at Glenlee Power Station. A series of old photographs of the site and its construction can be found here .

Niamh and beaches are made for each other. Add a ball and she is in heaven. Nun Mill Bay, Kirkcudbright

A collection of corrugated iron structures at Mutehill just outside Kirkcudbright.

Tongland, on the Dee just north of Kirkcudbright, is the largest power station in the Galloway Hydro Electric Power Scheme, producing 33 megawatts. (MW) . It was built in 1935 in the Art Deco style. The turbine hall, houses three 11 MW horizontal-running turbines. Drawing water from Tongland Loch and Loch Ken, power is generated at 11,500V and then stepped up to the 132,000V of the national grid by transformers in a compound behind the photographer. The power station is now operated by Scottish Power remotely from a control centre at Glenlee Power Station.

The wreck of the Monreith. On the 12th November 1900, the two masted sailing schooner Monreith, from the Galloway port of Wigton, was carrying a load of 110 tons of granite kerb stones from Newcastle in County Down, Northern Ireland to Silloth in England. A storm blew up and she attempted to take shelter in the mouth of Kirkudbright Bay (behind Little Ross Island, the island with the lighthouse on the horizon.) The bay was not yet deep enough and she grounded and was driven onto the sand banks of Goat Well Bay where her timbers were pounded by the surf until she sank. Her crew were able to launch a boat in her lee and made their way safely ashore just as the Kirkcudbright lifeboat arrived.