Reusing rope
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Reusing rope by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.
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Reusing rope
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 14 Sep 2019
Bedminster Bridge is a modern road bridge, recently rebuilt in 1998. However, originally it was a single crossing (the modern road system has two in a roundabout fashion) and was known as Harford's Bridge. That was constructed in the early 1800s as the New Cut was dug as part of the grand scheme of Bristol's Floating Harbour. Harford's was a shallow cast-iron bridge, made in Coalbrookdale, and featured some fine 'rope' details that has been retained - see Image However, the original bridge was not that strong and was damaged by the ship 'Fanny Chapman' in 1860. Horse-drawn traffic was alarmed at the state of it and led to a major rebuild in 1880-82.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.445672
Longitude
-2.591919