Now how can that be, I wonder, since there's no significant gap between the fixed & swinging sections of the roadway?
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Now how can that be, I wonder, since there's no significant gap between the fixed & swinging sections of the roadway?
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Looking at this, which is where the A49 crosses the canal, the bridge is not quite...
Yes; your picture and this one seem to show this clearly.
Looking at the two pictures of the open bridges on page 2, They are centre-pivoted, just the same as one built on a pier in the middle of a river, but half of it swings over land.
Next time you're in the area, it's worth going to see this close-up. It is said that the constraints of the site - it is 210 feet tall and only 19 feet from the river wall - almost brought the...
Oh, and sadly, the fine footbridge at Hooton has been demolished: vandals.:gnasher:
I'm very fond of the style of Green Lane station. Scouseinmanc is quite right; there was never a main line station here. The line did indeed run above the right-hand wall in the picture, and at the...
It is indeed in Oxton; Balls Rd., outside the Williamson Art Gallery.
Attached is one from Ashville Rd., which runs through Birkenhead Park. It's a hexagonal Penfold, Victorian.