Sidmouth, Alma Bridge 1895
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36076
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Alma Bridge spans the Sid at the point just before the river tumbles across a pebbled ridge into the sea. The first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth Beach. A heavy storm in 1877 battered the bridge, and we see it in its repaired state in photograph 36076 (above). In 1900 the architect R W Sampson was commissioned to design the present bridge, which we see here in photograph 84087 (below).
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