Ha! Mrs Tackle gave me a copy during our courtship.
I should warn you though, it isn't actually about an actual bridge
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Ha! Mrs Tackle gave me a copy during our courtship.
I should warn you though, it isn't actually about an actual bridge
Norman Potting
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Nice little piece ��
You need to upgrade yout instamatic, mate
Raleigh Chopper
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Did you know that if you go under the platforms at St Pancras the platform floor is held up by many cast iron props.
Nice props you may think, but each prop is spaced perfectly to hold 50 (I think) beer barrels so they don't roll away, they would have been empty to go back to the Burton breweries or full to be collected and taken to London pubs.
Clever buggers the Victorians.
Norman Potting
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You need to upgrade yout instamatic, mate
Phone camera with zoom - you should still be able to see it though, its big enough
GT49er
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Yes, we have many beautiful stations in the UK - some of them still haven't been spoiled too badly!
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Just south-west of the reservoir ?
I used to play on it as a child as it was being demolished!
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GT49er
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You can clearly see an example in the photo below
Ermmm .................. could you define 'clearly' for me?
dejavuatbtn
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To be honest, today we could never afford the level and quality of Victorian building and engineering. You see the old photos of guys in cloth caps and suits digging and laying brick, hardly earning a penny and living in shite slum conditions. We’ve never had it so good.
maffew
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Watched a couple of documentaries on Brunel, just absolutely insane what the man did. An extraordinary amount of projects all running at the same time, a total game changing visionary genius
Raleigh Chopper
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As Easy 10 said, the London Underground,but also the sewers, amazing engineering with millions of bricks.
You are right about today, but the series of programmes about building Crossrail was equally fascinating especially the bit between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street.
The tunnel at Tottenham Court Road passes above the Northern Line platform with a gap of about 6 inches, whilst above lasers were fixed to the walls of buildings in Soho Square to make sure they were not moving.
Norman Potting
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Taken from the grounds of "Nymans" NT last Sunday - eagle eyed daughter spotted "bridge thing" !
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Norman Potting
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Very true - perhaps there should be a memorial to the "unknown navvy". Love this song which is very true, albeit with an American slant but appropriately by an Irish Band
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...i60j35i39l2.6147j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Much better than the the similarly themed and named song by another, better known, Irish band
maltaseagull
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Very true - perhaps there should be a memorial to the "unknown navvy". Love this song which is very true, albeit with an American slant but appropriately by an Irish Band
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...i60j35i39l2.6147j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Much better than the the similarly themed and named song by another, better known, Irish band
Driving the last spike by Genesis.
Doonhamer7
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- Jun 17, 2016
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The greatest feats of Victorian civil engineering is the bits none of us see - the most important thing ever done is the provision of clean water and the removal of sewage. Bazalgette’s work is so much more fundamentally important than anything Brunel or Telford ever did. Without water being sorted we would still have all the waterborne diseases of cholera et al
thedonkeycentrehalf
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Our main train route from the coast is another fine example and is fast approaching its 200th birthday.
At 1 mile 499 yards (2065 metres) the Sussex Clayton Tunnel was completed in 1841 after 3 years of work. Given the tools available to them back then, this always amazes me together with the aforementioned Ouse Valley Viaduct.
At 1 mile 499 yards (2065 metres) the Sussex Clayton Tunnel was completed in 1841 after 3 years of work. Given the tools available to them back then, this always amazes me together with the aforementioned Ouse Valley Viaduct.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Just before the Freshfield Industrial Estate was built, accompanied by a couple of friends, we walked through the tunnel, out the other side, across the Hartington Road bridge, and over the Lewes Road viaduct. This would have been around 1970. We kept walking but when we started to see trains, (we were nearing Brighton Station), we decided it would be prudent to go back!
In the very early '60's, I attended Elm Grove Infants School. From the playground, we used to watch the steam trains going to a from Kemp Town Goods Yard.
Several years after the industrial estate was built and the tunnel blocked up, I managed William Clarke Park (amongst other green spaces), which was made on the land from Elm Grove School down to Hartington Road.