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I was in Cambridge earlier this year. Unfortunately, there was no public access to the city's most famous span, the Mathematical Bridge,...

I do love a bridge book which takes a specific river as its focus, and Thames Bridges ( Amberley Books , 96pp, 2022) is a nice addition to ...

This new book is the follow-up to the author's previous Encyclopaedia of British Bridges , which I reviewed in 2019 (and its predecessor...

This was the third of three bridges that I tried to visit on the River Wye in Powys in August this year. The first was barely a ghost, and t...

This is the next crossing of the River Wye upstream from  the Cwmbach Footbridge discussed in my previous post. It was built in 1967 by N.R....

Back in August 2021 (yes, time has been moving slowly here at Pontist Towers), I had the chance to look for three interesting footbridges al...

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