The bridge a bit of history

The old Penwotham Bridge built in 1759  is the 2 nd bridge built on this spot-the earlyer one was made of wood and fell down or got washed a way by the river . In the 1800 hundreds the site of the Preston Race Course ran along the allotments over the A59 round the old church down valley road past the grandstands

A SHORT HISTORY

Bridge over River Ribble (now a footbridge). 1759. Sandstone.
Five unequal segmental arches, rising towards the centre;
V-shaped cutwaters continued to the parapets to form refuges
on both sides of the deck; spandrels of red sandstone;
parapets with moulded tops, splayed at north end, and that on
the east side linked to matching wall which turns at
right-angles along north side of approach ramp from west.
History: replaced first bridge on this site (built 1755,
collapsed 1756), and until early C20 was lowest bridge over
River Ribble, intermittently maintained by tolls. The southern
half of the bridge is in Penwortham CP, South Ribble District
(q.v.).

A visit from an old friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl9ELx-akAshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j0hd-J9nC8

Peas on the cheap side

Had a trip to the allotment on Sunday to plant peas.

I have planted this type of pea seed for many years with great success

smaller pods that contain 5 or 6 peas-and a good germination of seeds too !

and cheap  at 49p a box that contains 250 grams of dried peas.

Why spend £1.70 a pkt

Rhubarb, Wig wam and Broad beans.

rhubarb

wig-wam

sowing more broad beans

state of play so far

Broad beans

Planted broadbeans to day, 1 x 15 ft row.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j0hd-J9nC8

" Summer Color "

below     Sweet Peas ready for planting out. 

Planted sweetpeas to add a splash of color to the allotment- the bees will love it, allso sown a tray of mixed color sunflowers

The end is here at last.

road surface machine ready to go to work.

You can see the old cobbles from years ago that where left under the tarmac

years ago this was the road surface usad to cover

 the full lenth of Broadgate, Strand rd and Fisherdate

every stone " Sets " as they where called in the day " layed by hand "

At last the roadworks at the junction of broad gate and fisher gate hill are showing a sign of coming to an end-after 2 years of work on the water tunnels under the river ribble

Helen and Rebecca plant potatoes

Potatoes ready for planting.

Busy with the potatoe panting.

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