I’ve just started re-reading The Bridge , by Iain Banks . Very recommended.
Ha! Mrs Tackle gave me a copy during our courtship.
I should warn you though, it isn't actually about an actual bridge
I’ve just started re-reading The Bridge , by Iain Banks . Very recommended.
I love the Ouse Valley Viaduct
I did a piece on it a while ago with a slightly different slant.
https://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/the-ouse-valley-viaduct-and-what-history-forgets/
Victorian architecture is majestic but I can't help think that history was written by the overlords.
St Pancras the main building/hotel and the sweep of the train terminus are both stunning.
You need to upgrade yout instamatic, mate
All the way down from Plymouth to Penzance there are many beautiful viaducts, the one that goes over the river at St Germans is a thing of beauty.
I have great interest in Victorian engineering, St Pancras station is a truly amazing building.
Talking of lesser known marvels, anyone remember the bridge over Hartington Road? The brickwork was amazing - the bridge crossed the road at an angle, on a slope, and the bricks were laid at a 45 degrees to the vertical on one side, then up and over the top, to eventually come down to the other side again at 45 degrees to the vertical, the opposite way round!
It was the most fantastic bit of brickwork I've ever seen -really should have been preserved.
You can clearly see an example in the photo below
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.
Just south-west of the reservoir ?
I love the Ouse Valley Viaduct
I did a piece on it a while ago with a slightly different slant.
https://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/the-ouse-valley-viaduct-and-what-history-forgets/
Victorian architecture is majestic but I can't help think that history was written by the overlords.
I love the Ouse Valley Viaduct
I did a piece on it a while ago with a slightly different slant.
https://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/the-ouse-valley-viaduct-and-what-history-forgets/
Victorian architecture is majestic but I can't help think that history was written by the overlords.
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
Talking of lesser known marvels, anyone remember the bridge over Hartington Road? The brickwork was amazing - the bridge crossed the road at an angle, on a slope, and the bricks were laid at a 45 degrees to the vertical on one side, then up and over the top, to eventually come down to the other side again at 45 degrees to the vertical, the opposite way round!
It was the most fantastic bit of brickwork I've ever seen -really should have been preserved.