To mis-quote Oscar Wilde, “To lose one bridge may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”. But this happened to bridge 82, near Glaisdale. The story is told in nine photos taken for the LNER Engineer's Department, and ending with the completed bridge, the third on the site and still there, being (...)

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This photo of a quirky lifting bridge carrying the LBSCR Deptford Wharf branch over the Grand Surrey Canal came to us via the Jeoffry Spence Collection. Its history has been traced back to a paper presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers in the 1849-50 session but, clearly, (...)

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