After yesterday’s high-tech achievement, let’s look at something which in its day was equally advanced: the wonderful Horseley cast iron bridges on the canals. These occur in many places – either as simple bridges spanning the canal – often at junctions where a brick bridge would be difficult – or more elaborate constructions. Here are some examples.
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| A Horseley Bridge on the Birmingham Canals |
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| The date of the bridge |
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| Another Horseley bridge over a branch near Rugby |
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| One of a pair of bridges over the junction at Braunston |
There are two more substantial and beautiful bridges on the Birmingham Canal system. One is actually an aqueduct taking a branch from the upper or old main line across Telford’s new main line.
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| The Engine House bridge |
The other is the Galton Bridge, designed by Telford and cast by Horseley which used to take the road across the canal. This listed building is now only used by pedestrians
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| Galton Brdge |
2 comments:
Great photos -I love bridges. The Spanish seem specially good at fabulous modern ones.
A glorious Horsely Bridge is the bridge over the Avon at Hampton Lucy Warwickshire either 1829 or 1833
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