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RE. Where's Our Susan?
I was looking at the old Co-op photo of Widnes. I was amazed when I read about Susan. I too lived in South Street. I lived at number 4. It's been many years but I'm almost certain I know you all! Lol! By the way my name is Charlie I was 6 in 1960.
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RE: RE: RE. Where's Our Susan?
Hey Charles, that is a photo of the Transporter Bridge. I travelled (if travel it did!) on that wretched thing every day to work at Runcorn Co-op as a Hire Purchase Clerk. Lord, the rust used to drop down onto your clothes, and it used to come to a halt, in the middle of the journey, and I would be 'wages docked' for late arrival! When the new road bridge was being built, my dad, who was a steel erector for Richard White, saw it, he said to me " the b......y thing's too small, they'll need more traffic lanes in no time!'. (They should have asked Jim Richards how to build a roadbridge...he would have put them right!) My dad took a photo on our Kodak Brownie (very posh) of the brief time when there were THREE bridges...the old bridge, the Transporter and the almost completed new road bridge....I wish I had it to show you...these things did not seem too important then...priceless now!Thanks for the memory Robert. Kind Regards Jackie
Comment from Jackie Worrall on Wednesday, 14th December 2011.
RE: RE: RE. Where's Our Susan?
Hi Jackie Worrall! Yes I remember the “Tranny" well. I used to travel with mum to Runcorn market and to her friend's house. She used to be terrified of it, especially if it was windy or broke down in the middle. I wasn't allowed near the gate because it used to lurch to a halt unexpectedly! Funnily enough I live in Mersey Road in West Bank now! About 30 yards from where the bridge stood. What a pity it wasn't maintained like the one in Newcastle. It would have been a great tourist attraction for both towns. Obviously it would only be for pedestrians and light vehicles though! Thank you for your memories.
Comment from Charles Wood on Wednesday, 21st December 2011.
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Oh yes - and I see pictures of our three bridges in pubs and restaurants in Widnes and find it amazing that no one either notices them or recognises how important they are. The wet, rusty water dripping from the girders of the Transporter Bridge would mark your clothes forever, and you had no real shelter from it all, because the long, seated, and roofed area, meant for the pedestrians, also leaked. When the thing stopped dead in the middle of the Mersey, in the true British way of things, we just used to sit there and wait for it to get fixed....and with a sickening lurch, begin the remainder of the journey to or from Runcorn. Cars and motor bikes would be backed up along Mersey Road and the fortunate travellers who had missed the 'car' would pay one penny, through a turnstyle and walk across the Old Bridge...at least they would not lose a half day pay for being late for work! But in the summer, the breeze was lovely...it was just the car fumes that made you cough...and it didn't seem to matter a bit! When the New Road Bridge was being built, my dad predicted that within ten years the (Swearword) thing would be too (another swear word) small...and indeed it was! If anyone ever needed to know how best to run the world, let alone Widnes...they should have asked my DAD! he may have used rather a lot of swear words, but he did know about bridges!...and how to run the world effectively.
Comment from Jackie Worrall on Thursday, 19th April 2012.