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Old 06-02-2015, 10:20 PM
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Question Name the bridge?

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Built for the Duke of Northumberland in 1862 this bridge was adopted by Northumberland County Council in 1888. In 1951 sheet steel piling had to be driven across two thirds of the down-stream side - the entire bridge had moved three-quarters of an inch from the north side owing to moving foundations. A further drive of sheet steel piles sixteen feet long completed the remaining one third in 1964. A weight limit of nine tons was imposed in 1967.
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Old 07-02-2015, 12:31 AM
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Lion bridge near Alnwick castle?
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Old 07-02-2015, 08:16 AM
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Built for the Duke of Northumberland in 1862 this bridge was adopted by Northumberland County Council in 1888. In 1951 sheet steel piling had to be driven across two thirds of the down-stream side - the entire bridge had moved three-quarters of an inch from the north side owing to moving foundations. A further drive of sheet steel piles sixteen feet long completed the remaining one third in 1964. A weight limit of nine tons was imposed in 1967.
Interesting one, trying to think of the weight limit bridges when I am out and about, most of the upper Coquet are strengthened for the army, Pauperhaugh and Weetwood - too old, Ingram maybe?
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Old 07-02-2015, 10:57 PM
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Nope, not Ingram, not the Lion bridge.
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Old 08-02-2015, 10:45 AM
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Felton?
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Old 08-02-2015, 02:06 PM
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Pauperhaugh
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Old 08-02-2015, 03:27 PM
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Pauperhaugh
Yep! It is indeed the bridge at Pauperhaugh.

(From info kindly supplied to me by R Robson, c 1996 during the course of my researches into the history of the Lee Township at Longframlington.)
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