|
Post by mac on Jan 1, 2015 11:25:56 GMT
Small Heath (New) Bridge opened in 1904 and runs from Kendal Rd to Jenkins Rd a span of about 200 metres across the then Oxford to Birmingham Railway, the Warwick to Birmingham canal and now the Small Heath Bypass the A45. In the 60s & 70's it was still known to the locals as Small Heath New Bridge. Attachments:
|
|
|
Post by vince on Jan 1, 2015 14:02:03 GMT
Small Heath (New) Bridge opened in 1904 and runs from Kendal Rd to Jenkins Rd a span of about 200 metres across the then Oxford to Birmingham Railway, the Warwick to Birmingham canal and now the Small Heath Bypass the A45. In the 60s & 70's it was still known to the locals as Small Heath New Bridge. So, was there an 'Old' bridge ?
|
|
|
Post by mac on Jan 1, 2015 14:24:09 GMT
No I don't think there ever was.
|
|
|
Post by vince on Jan 1, 2015 16:34:38 GMT
No I don't think there ever was. I only asked because on the 1903 O.S map Jenkins St crosses the railway and the bridge opened in 1904.
|
|
|
Post by Jerry on Jan 1, 2015 18:12:55 GMT
This is an extract from William Dargue's brief history of Small Heath. Opened in 1904 by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Sir Hallewell Rogers Small Heath Bridge, first known as New Bridge, crosses the Warwick & Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham & Oxford Railway with a span of two hundred metres to join Jenkins Street and Kendal Road. There has previously been no access from Small Heath to Sparkbrook between Sandy Lane (now Bordesley Middleway) and Golden Hillock Road.This would suggest that there never was a bridge before the new one was built.
You can read the full history here, well worth a visit if you haven't read it beforebilldargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-s/small-heath/Jerry
|
|
|
Post by planetmalc on Jan 4, 2015 16:47:15 GMT
No I don't think there ever was. I only asked because on the 1903 O.S map Jenkins St crosses the railway and the bridge opened in 1904. It might be that work on the new bridge was well under way when the surveyors for the 1903 map were in the area, but it wasn't actually completed until 1904.
|
|