All our yesterdays................for Bill and CWH

#1

Of course any of you guys can have a bash at it too

Name the Bridge...........

What does it go over?

#2

River Trent, Shugborough Fishing Club water.

See if CWH knows what county it is in

#3

Bill, can you

Name the Bridge...........

Bet ChrisV could

#4

Waht are those triangular indentions in the said bridge for?

#5

Can only guess Bill - to enable the peasantry space to move out of the way when the lorded gentry galloped across.....?

or to allow packhorses to cross?

cheslynboy · #6

you are right TK its for people to stand out of the way when the bridge is in use there are some on the main bridge at Matlock for the same purpose

#7

Are the triangles there so Lord Lichfield could get better angles for his dolly shots?

#8

TK.

Your bang on there me duck. It is an actual packhorse bridge. Those triangles are there so folk can get out of the way.
It is nearly 500 years old and is definitley the longest exising packhorse bridge in the country.

It was reputedly built so the landed gentry could cross the river and do a bit of shooting.

Just for interest they were catching a few fish there at back end; one guy had a bream of 3 lb so some fish must have escaped the cyanide pollution.

End of history lesson. ::) ::) ::) ::)

If anyone knows Stafford what was 'The Leaning Tower of Beazor' and where was it?

Sprucey · #9

bill
this leaning tower it's not anything you've hooked is it ??????

#10

bill
this leaning tower it's not anything you've hooked is it ??????

#11

Sorry bit late on today.
It is the Essex Bridge that links Shugborough to Great Haywood in Staffordshire where Bill comes from !!!!

#12

Also the River Sow enters the Trent just above this Bridge !

#13

Oh just in case I forgot its in Staffordshire where Bill comes from, Staffordshire is a nice county, but not as nice as Derbyshire !!!

#14

Of course any of you guys can have a bash at it too

Name the Bridge...........

What does it go over?

Thems trees have some of bills rigs hanging off em !

#15

Derbyshire !!!

Shyte Pit