Forth Bridge

This guide to the Forth Bridge follows the men who raised it between 1883 and 1889, around four thousand six hundred workers driving six and a half million red-hot rivets by hand, and the death toll that later research pushed well past the number first recorded. It also traces where the phrase painting the Forth Bridge comes from, the endless repainting loop crews kept working for over a century. Listen for the names of the youngest workers lost to the job.