keithb Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 anyone got any info on this bridge if you look off Kingsway bridge towards st johns school back of the houses theres this bridge love to know some more info if anyone can help its on the 1894 map thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Keithb, looking on that map and the more recent ones (where there is a little more detail) it looks like it was just a bridge which crossed 'the feeder', presumably a stream or other waterway, that ran along side the mersey and went to Manor Locks. See these two maps..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 The line of the 'feeder' comes from over at Woolston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithb Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 thanks for your help on this. any one any know what year it may of been built ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Looking at a map of 1873 it is definately a bridge over the 'Feeder' which was the waterway created from Woolston Cut to fill the locks (when the locks were used the water drained out so had to be re-filled by the feeder)The bridge looks to have led to the other side of the feeder where the mooring posts were on the banks of the Mersey.So an educated guess would be that the little bridge would have been built about the same times as the feeder aqueduct was dug and the locks were built on new Runcorn and Latchford Canal (Mersey & Irwell Canal) as that was created so the boats could bypass the more tidal sections of the Mersey.I think the Runcorn to Latchford canal opened in 1803. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Hi Keithb, yes that is a small bridge that crossed a feeder stream that drained into the Mersey by Kingsway bridge, I used to walk over it on way to school at Richard Fairclough's, it had a slewce gate underneath and sometimes the water running over the gate made a squealing noise we kids used to say it was a pig stuck in there we used to hold a kids ankle so he could lean over the edge to have a look, Dam dangerous but kids will be kids, sorry I have to report, no pig ever found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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