The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96122   Message #1967343
Posted By: Big Tim
14-Feb-07 - 09:48 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Subject: RE: tramps and hawkers
'I helped to build the michty bridge that spans the busy Forth' line is a clue to the date of the song?

Obviously not the Forth Road Bridge (1964) so must be the Forth Rail Bridge, constructed between 1893 and 1890.