Captions

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Caption For Sidmouth, Alma Bridge 1895

Alma Bridge spans the Sid at the point just before the river tumbles across a pebbled ridge into the sea.

Caption For Ambleside, Sweden Bridge 1912

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Caption For Cambridge, St John's College, Old Bridge 1890

Here we see St John's College Old Bridge, originally conceived by Wren, but brought into being in 1712 by Robert Grumbold.

Caption For Bedford, The Bridge 1921

John Wing's 1811 bridge replaced a medieval one built or rebuilt soon after 1224; the builders probably used stone from the demolished castle, which was destroyed or 'slighted' after a punishing siege

Caption For Maidstone, The Promenade And Bridge 1898

This view of the riverside promenade looks past the Archbishop's Palace to Maidstone Bridge and the chimneys of the industrial area beyond.

Caption For Blakeney, The Severn Railway Bridge C1950

There were only two other bridges on British Railways that were longer than the Severn Bridge: the second Tay (10,711 ft) and the Forth (8296 ft).

Caption For Shefford, North Bridge Street C1960

In 1560 the Robert Lucas Trust was set up to establish and maintain bridges, highways and causeways in Shefford.

Caption For Sunderland, The Bridges 1900

A tram rattles across the old road bridge bound for Grangetown.

Caption For Widnes, The Bridges C1961

This is an interesting photograph showing all three bridges crossing the Runcorn Gap.

Caption For Warwick, Bridge End 1922

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

Caption For Dublin, Sackville Street 1897

A view of O'Connell Street looking north with O'Connell Bridge over the River Liffey in the foreground.

Caption For Chepstow, The Bridge 1950

We are looking down onto the old bridge with the castle in the centre left of the picture.

Caption For Sudbury, Ballingdon Bridge 1900

This was the latest of many wooden bridges to span the River Stour at this point on the main route from Essex (right) into Suffolk.

Caption For Burton On Trent, Ferry Bridge C1960

The River Trent at Burton is now crossed by three bridges: Burton Bridge, built in 1864, the iron Angelsey Bridge and the Stapenhill Viaduct, which is in fact a footbridge.

Caption For Tewkesbury, King John's Bridge C1960

King John's bridge has straddled the Avon at Tewkesbury for some 800 years.

Caption For Stamford Bridge, The Bridges C1960

The East and West bridges cross the Derwent side by side.

Caption For Saltash, The Tamar Bridge C1965

The completion of the road bridge in 1961 signalled the end of the Saltash Ferry.

Caption For Belfast, Ann Street 1897

It was a ford which fixed the site of Belfast, but not long after the town was begun, a bridge crossed the river.

Caption For Launceston, Greystone Bridge C1875

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Caption For Wadebridge, The Bridge 1906

The 'longest and fairest' bridge in Cornwall crosses the upper part of the Camel estuary, seen here at high tide.