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emmdee: 01 path from carpark to the spine road bridge
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emmdee: 02 the footpath upriver
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emmdee: 03 Then there was a bridge
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emmdee: There seems to be a stone bridge behind the iron girder one
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emmdee: Its still in use
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emmdee: Its Brunel's original stone bridge - really pretty curved arch
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emmdee: 07 Downstream, Rupert feeding the ducks
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emmdee: 08 approaching the bridg(es)
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emmdee: 09 the sunlight shows the arch well
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emmdee: 10 really chunky steel columns
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emmdee: 12 the original bridge has strong detailing, must have looked spectacular in its day
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emmdee: 13 under the arch, 130 years of stalagmites!
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emmdee: 14 theres another steel bridge! Rupert goes to look over the edge
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emmdee: 15 this bridge is disused
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emmdee: 16 the later bridges are very near the original
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emmdee: Showing the beautiful flat Brunel brick arch, and the lovely stonework detail
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emmdee: The beautiful gothic pointed arch dates it!
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emmdee: The wall on the left probably as old as the bridge, those blocks are from bridge supports which have been dismantled - the bridge terminates behind me
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emmdee: 20 the path turns a right angle between fences
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emmdee: 21 on one side a factory, and a rather nice bike
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emmdee: 22 the other side of the path - strange place to keep the cones
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emmdee: 23 workplace smokers are (feathered) bird fanciers!
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emmdee: 26 the Brunel bridge and its descendents from upstream
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emmdee: 27 the weir and the banana bridge
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emmdee: 28 then the weir which is designed to maintain the water level in the Feeder Canal
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emmdee: 29 weir, and whats that little house
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emmdee: 30 Netham lock and road bridge, Bristol