Mystery Structure
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Mystery Structure by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Mystery Structure
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 3 Apr 2012
This crumbling structure is just north of a point where the canal narrows markedly between two quays that look as if they are constructed of concrete, but none of the Geograph walk participants knew what this is for. My thanks to Janette Peacey who contacted me to suggest that it might have been a lifting bridge. Also to Ray who tells me that he thinks this was the Great Central Railway lifting bridge that once existed over the Tinsley Canal to sidings at Tinsley Park Collieries.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.400874
Longitude
-1.411591