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View Full Version : another from my youth gregs dad 02-07-2008, 06:59 PM http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2248359213_89ec2723f2_o.jpg Reflection of a bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool canal at Aintree. It looks the same upside down Gnomie 02-07-2008, 07:31 PM Cracking pic:handclap: It looks so nice like that. naked lilac 02-07-2008, 08:25 PM Do you know why the crosses are on the bridge? Norm NZ 02-08-2008, 01:10 AM Do you know why the crosses are on the bridge? "I like this question1 i think we could have a lot of fun suggesting answers!" a, The builders ran out of brick's!! b. 4 iron crosses, 2 either side, joined by metal rods to stop the sides from falling in the water!! Come-on! lets have some more!!:PDT_Aliboronz_11::handclap: Waterways 02-08-2008, 01:18 AM "I like this question1 i think we could have a lot of fun suggesting answers!" b. 4 iron crosses, 2 either side, joined by metal rods to stop the sides from falling in the water!! That is it. They are quite common and usually an after fit as the walls are bowing for some reason. The bridge walls would be filled with loose rubble between (hardcore). The crosses and bar would clamp the two walls together. The better bridges keyed the outer walls together with internal walls to prevent movement and then hardcore filled between. Then the road on top. Many of them were fitted on buildings after WW2 bombings that shook buildings. Many are just square plain metal plates in a diamond shape. A bridge would have some ornamented crosses as it was a public building. naked lilac 02-08-2008, 05:43 AM Thank you for answering my question..( even if it sounded funny..) I was definitely curious about that... AMEN.. :Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13 Ged 02-08-2008, 09:38 AM Yes, here is an example on a pic I took last summer of what must've been a badly bowing wall on a house around Knight st/Pilgrim st. http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4300/off20pilgrim20stgq7.jpg (http://imageshack.us) . Gerry 02-08-2008, 01:54 PM I always thought that was the house owned by the man who invented the noughts and crosses game. OXOXOX shoney 02-08-2008, 06:49 PM A lot of these were added at the time of construction to tie the floors to the outside walls, they were not always put in as after thoughts Devo 02-11-2008, 03:43 AM http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2248359213_89ec2723f2_o.jpg Reflection of a bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool canal at Aintree. It looks the same upside down Looks like the Spencers Lane bridge at Melling!
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