Wetherby, The Bridge Over The River Wharfe 1909
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The first bridge, built in 1235, was eleven feet wide. By 1773 the hump was lowered, and a second widening took place in 1826. All three stages can be seen from underneath the present bridge. Famous travellers over the Wharfe include Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell; the bridge was also used over many years by drovers, who took thousands of cattle south. Up to 1959 the bridge carried all the traffic of the Great North Road; then a new and very welcome by-pass bridge just to the east was opened by Ernest Marples, the Transport Minister. The telegraph pole, seen centre, was erected in the same year as the photograph.
An extract from West Yorkshire Photographic Memories.
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