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Favourite Bridges 23:17 - Jul 16 with 15692 views

CliveWilsonSaid

This one over the Piccadilly Line near South Ealing Station.

I love it. I love using it more

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Expectations for this season?

Favourite Bridges on 10:33 - Jul 20 with 1276 views

francisbowles

I've not tried copying pictures before so not sure if this will work but two of my favourites. Firstly, the bridge from San Diego to Coronado island which you can go across on a local bus, it's very high!

Then the ultra modern and beautiful Twin sails bridge in Poole. Takes ages to raise and lower, though.

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.LNKs2WcMle3hsJpD_4zafgHaEK&w=236&h=320&am

Then there is my favourite as a child. Ferrycarrig bridge over the river Slaney as it used to look. Unfortunately, they had to strengthen and widen it to build a bypass for Wexford town. Still a beautiful spot but lost a little of it's old world charm.

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.SVT5GxlFgMtxGPUob_bpagHaEx&w=236&h=320&am

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Favourite Bridges on 12:04 - Jul 20 with 1178 views

Konk

Favourite Bridges on 09:20 - Jul 20 by BrianMcCarthy
And we also have a Spike Island in Cork, Konk. We're like twins! Our Spike Island was a Monastery, then a British fort, then a British jail and then - gloriously - an Irish jail until the tide went out too far one day and the inmates walked to freedom. Beat that, Bristol!

That’s great. Bristol’s Spike Island is a man-made island, which was created when they dug out the new cut to divert the River Avon, to create the floating harbour. Engineering masterpiece. The old gaol was on Spike Island. I’ll post a picture once it’s been refurbished!

Fulham FC: It's the taking part that counts

Favourite Bridges on 17:08 - Jul 22 with 1012 views

R_from_afar

Roman bridge exposed by low river levels...but the real headline is that it's cr@p

https://www.livescience.com/drought-reveals-roman-emperor-nero-bridge?utm_source

The bridge "was built on a tight bend in a floodplain," which is "a terrible idea," Rabun Taylor, a classics professor at University of Texas at Austin, told Live Science in an email. "River bends cutting through pure sediment tend to wander and change shape, so their banks are prone to losing contact with bridge abutments" that connect the bridge to the ground, Taylor said.

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

Favourite Bridges on 18:21 - Jul 22 with 950 views

Boston

Favourite Bridges on 09:06 - Jul 20 by CroydonCaptJack
Looks fantastic but that is a cable-stayed bridge not a suspension bridge.

He was giving us the abridged version.

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Thank God The Seaons Over.

Favourite Bridges on 10:28 - Jul 23 with 820 views

DannyPaddox

Favourite Bridges on 09:20 - Jul 20 by BrianMcCarthy
And we also have a Spike Island in Cork, Konk. We're like twins! Our Spike Island was a Monastery, then a British fort, then a British jail and then - gloriously - an Irish jail until the tide went out too far one day and the inmates walked to freedom. Beat that, Bristol!

Spike Island, Cork has a Park Run too. It’s on my to-do list.

Favourite Bridges on 16:19 - Jul 23 with 763 views

TheRam

Favourite Bridges on 10:15 - Jul 20 by francisbowles
Thanks for the tip, stevec. Coming up from the south and depending on Waze whether I take the M25/M4 or carry on up the 316. I'll have to try and remember to look out for that.

I love the brutalist Itchen Bridge down here in Southampton, about half a mile long and nearing 100ft high. Sad that around 200 have hopped over the edge since it was built in 1977 x

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