Friday 29 March 2013

Canal Swing Bridge

At the entrance to the rediscovered basin is a nice new swing bridge, put there to allow narrowboats to get in and out. It is a very tight turn into this basin, and the entrance seems very narrow to me, and I'm really not sure that all the boats on the canal could get in, longer ones might well struggle.

I have only ever seen it used once, shortly after the re-opening, and never again. The bridge replaces the four planks of wood that we used to walk across, and we have also lost the hordes of frogs that used to spawn here.



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