Joe Anderson and Ian Pollit cutting the ribbon
The historic Bascule bridge on the Dock Road in Liverpool, which has been closed since 2008, was reopened on 25th August 2010 by Liverpool councilor Joe Anderson and Ian Pollitt from Peel Holdings who were responsible for refurbishing it.
The ribbon cutting ceremony took place around mid-day.
The machinery in the control room above the bridge…
The control room for the Bascule Bridge.
More images of the bridge and the Dock area can be viewed Here
Saturday was fine and sunny – just the right conditions to go to Liverpool and complete a list of images I wanted to shoot with a nice sunset!
Never got to take all the images as the last mile of the journey to Pier Head was shrouded in thick freezing mist!
Waste not – want not!
I visited North Wales recently, back to the Llanberis Pass and Blaen y Nant where I lived during the 1960′s. The only place that ever felt like home even though it had no electricity, no gas or running water – other than the stream which cascaded off Yr Wyddfa ( Snowdon ), down through Cwm Glas and beside the cottage before flowing into Afon Nant Peris which flows from Pen y Pass to Caernarfon. It came as rather a shock to see the cottage in this state.
I often walked beside Afon Nant Peris on my way to catch the school bus in the village about a mile away – often in the torrential rain we experienced in the mountains during the 1960′s.
Salmon used to come up the river in winter and could be seen in the pools. The river level was often much higher then than it is today – many occasions the river would almost be lapping over the bridge, I had to cross to get to the road, as it thundered past – about 3 or 4 feet above its normal level.
The riverbed was like a mosaic of coloured stones and rocks.
