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I might have to go and visit!
Delighted to see it's been repaired. It looks magnificent!
Been meaning to take a wander back where I grew up... this is making me want to go sooner.
Thanks.
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Bifurcated - another school day. Thanks
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I used to live around that area and always wanted to walk across it.
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Sadly, councils are far too reluctant to spend money on things that improve the lives of their residents and visitors while not doing anything tangibly useful. I reported a bench to Hillingdon that needed repairing recently and they replied that they would instead remove it as it wasn't needed. It's gone now, despite me raising it with local councillors, so more sitting aimlessly by the river for us locals.
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That bridge looks stunning! Never been to that park, it was a great post war idea to create such public spaces from bomb sites and run down areas.
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Robslondon YouTube channel has recently posted a video exploring the route of the canal.At about twenty one minutes in, he enters Burgess Park showing the bridge under repair.. Well worth watching.
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Hurrah for Southwark council! How wonderfully bonkers!
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My local pointless bridge, and a joy to walk briskly across every morning on my way to nowhere. The streets only disappeared gradually – their ghostly imprints were still there until relatively recently, with bits of kerb and tarmac disappearing into the grass... all rather atmospheric. As for the flatness, the (artificial) hill at the north end of the bridge might not look like much, but the summit has an unexpectedly good view of the entire City of London – Gherkin, Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater et al.
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Southwark Council should be given credit for the way it maintains the area's historical industrial infrastructure, particularly in view of the cuts in government grants to local authorities that have taken place over the past thirteen years. Another "bridge to nowhere" that has just been restored is the rolling bascule bridge that used to carry Redriff Road over the channel connecting Canada Dock and Greenland Dock. And the bridge of the same type that provides a pedestrian & cycle connection between the two parts of Rotherhithe Street divided by the old Surrey Lock, is currently undergoing similar restoration work.
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Would demolition have been more expensive (overall, including admin time for the inevitable consultation)
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My playground 35 - 40 years ago. Lived on the Glocester Grove estate just across the road from south side of the bridge and spent many an hour swinging on the girders or throwing a ball over the top from one side to the other.
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I, for one, applaud the council for acknowledging and respecting the area's history.
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