Glasgow's oldest surviving complete Clyde Bridge is Victoria Bridge, lying at the foot of Stockwell Street. 

Bishop's Bridge, its 500 year old predecessor on the same site, had become too restrictive for the growing demands of traffic, by 1851 Glasgow's population had risen to 329,000 having doubled in the previous 25 years.

A new 50ft wide 5 span masonry arch bridge was designed, with foundations 19ft below those of the old bridge, and timber piles which were steam-driven a further 14ft below that. 

When the bridge opened in 1854, Glasgow had the two widest bridges in Britain – London's widest at that time was only 54ft.

Victoria Bridge is built on the site of the first recorded bridge over the Clyde; a timber bridge believed to exist in 1285 and described as "Glaskow bryg, that byggt was of tre" in Henry the Minstrel's epic poem on Sir William Wallace.

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