Sue

How about page 85 of March 1990 WW? This featured Churchbridge Locks
and the Hawkins Branch Lift Bridge. The photo is credited to Waterway
Archives at Gloucester

A most curious bridge - does anyone know any more about it?


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On 24 Oct 2007, at 20:36, Sue Williams wrote:

> Can anyone help with this query received today about a swing (or
> possibly lift) bridge that used to be on the Hatherton Branch of the
> Staffs & Worcs Canal? I have given the enquirer a further link on our
> website (www.lhcrt.org.uk/cbw28other.htm) which gives a bit more
> detail, but if anyone knows anything else, or where I might find a
> picture, I would appreciate it.
> Thanks
> Sue Williams
>
> Hello
> I would be grateful if you could pass this email on to anyone you know
> who might be able to help me identify the location of a swingbridge on
> the Hatherton canal as it passes through Bridgtown
> Your website (www.lhcrt.org.uk/hatherton.htm) has been a big help to
> me in locating where in Bridgtown the canal ran and I think the place
> I am looking for is the bit referred to as
> "The short arm leading to the basin was spanned by a towpath bridge
> and an unusual lift bridge and there was an aqueduct over the Wyrley
> Brook".
> We have been casual supporters of your organisation for about 5 or so
> years and always give a wave to the aquaduct as we pass under it… we
> were therefore delighted (in a strange sort of way) to discover that
> we had a link to the history of the canal - although a slightly morbid
> link - my husbands great-uncle (Isaac Holmes, age 11) fell from the
> swing bridge and drowned in July 1903.
> Grateful for any suggestions as to where we could find out some more
> information about this Bridgtown swingbridge
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