1 West Bridge Street is an historic building in the

Bridgend Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge ...

area of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Scotland. A former

tollbooth A tollbooth (or toll booth) is an enclosure placed along a toll road that is used for the purpose of collecting a toll from passing traffic. A structure consisting of several tollbooths placed next to each other is called a toll plaza, tollgat ...

building, it is a Category C

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

dating to around 18001 West Bridge Street, Perth, Scotland
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and is located on the southern side of the eastern end of

Perth Bridge Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge, locally, the Old Bridge, and in the local dialect of Scots, the Auld Brig) is a toll-free bridge in the city of Perth, Scotland. A Category A listed structure, it spans the River Tay, connecting Pert ...

. The part of the building that curved around onto Commercial Street has been demolished. It was one of three toll houses in Perth, the others being on the Edinburgh and Dundee Roads (the latter being the Barnhill Tollhouse). A

bye-law A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), or as it is most commonly known in the United States bylaws, is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authorit ...

on the building's noticeboard specified that locomotives crossing the bridge had to be preceded by a

flagbearer A standard-bearer, also known as a flag-bearer is a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem known as a standard or military colours, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a ...

. The law was enacted after a locomotive with spiked wheels damaged the road surface. After its original use, it was J. I. Laing's fruiter, fishmonger and poulterer (as of 1911)''Leslie's directory for Perth and Kinross'' (1911)
/ref> and J. S. Lees Fish & Poultry Shop later in its life.J. S. Lees Grocers (Former)
– Canmore.org.uk

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1800 establishments in Scotland West Bridge Street, 1 Category C listed buildings in Perth and Kinross Toll houses {{Scotland-struct-stub

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