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Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

When O'Connell Bridge was built in 1790 it was known as Carlisle Bridge, and altered for ever the original concept of O'Connell Street as an elegant residential area.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

Within fifteen years of this photo, the roadway had been made into a proper bridge, and there had been an infilling of bungalows on the left- hand side.

The village of Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions.When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid

Fry's Gardens, otherwise Bridge End Gardens, were initiated by Francis Gibson, a member of a well-known Quaker family.

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford.

The surviving old Swan bridge was built in 1738 to replace an earlier wooden one, and it has been preserved after a more modern bridge and carriageway were constructed alongside it.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

the curve of the bridge looks familiar it may be because it reminds you of the Sydney Harbour Bridge which was built by the same company, Dorman Long, who also built the Forth Road Bridge, the Severn Bridge and

As we look east over Skeldergate Bridge and the River Ouse to the left we can see the Assize Court; to the centre, standing out against the skyline is the spire of what was the Debtors' Prison and is now

It is close to Regatta Week - as indicated by the decorative 'shields' suspended from the middle piers of the bridge - and probably early on a Sunday morning to judge by the lack of traffic on either the

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

During the Civil War, in 1648, General Fairfax and the Parliamentary Army crossed the bridge and captured Maidstone from the Royalists.

was constructed along the south side of the Rheidol in 1901 to transport lead ore from the mines to the harbour, but it became a very popular tourist attraction for those wishing to visit the Devil's Bridge and

This view was taken from the top of Brunel's railway viaduct and looks down New Road to the bridge and the beginning of the High Street.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

The obelisk on the bridge and most of the buildings have since been replaced.

But it has two 'official' names, sometimes it is called the Widnes-Runcorn Railway Bridge and sometimes the Britannia Railway Bridge.

On the Widnes side of the bridge the world's first double- decker bus service was started in 1909 especially to meet passengers from the bridge and give them a ride into the centre of the town

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

The Tringford Road bridge and the mill warehouse to the far right survive, but the canalside store with its bag hoist has been replaced by Heygate Flour, who now move everything by lorry.

When Charles Kingsley stayed at Bridge End, the area inspired him to write his novel The Water Babies.