Date: 13 January 2024
Location: Skelton Lake Services, J45 M1, Leeds 53.7726209,-1.4702242
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Britannia Bridge
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Date: 25 November 2023
Location: Britannia Bridge 53.2139571,-4.1830098
National Slate Museum
Greystone Footbridge
Gravity Explorer (under construction)
Kingsway Tunnel
Sowerby Bridge Wharf
Berwick Pier
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Date: 26 August 2022
Location: Berwick-upon-Tweed 55.7647556,-1.9851805
There has been a breakwater protecting the Tweed estuary at Berwick since the thirteenth century. The present structure, a 960-yard-long stone pier, was completed in 1821, and the 44-foot-tall lighthouse at its extremity — designed by engineer George Nelson — was built in 1826.
this endless sea is an installation by interdisciplinary artist and sea swimmer Chloe Smith. An audiovisual work playing inside the hut explores themes of grief and the sea.
Kessock Bridge
Date: 22 August 2022
Location: Inverness 57.496257, -4.222702
The Kessock Bridge carries the A9 road connecting Inverness and the Black Isle. The bridge crosses the narrows between the Beauly and Moray Firths and has a total length of 1056 m with a cable-stayed main span of 240 m. Construction of the bridge took four years and it opened in 1982. Prior to that, the main route north had to take a 20 mile detour inland. Alternatively there was a small ferry operating between South and North Kessock.
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Railway Museum
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Transformer
Date: 20 March 2022
Location: Gweryndd, Bethesda 53.174399, -4.041350
Mamod
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May Taylor Morgan’s views of Caernarfon
Quarry Bank Mill
Slate Quarry, Caseg Valley
Lichen
Date
20 June 2020
Location
Caseg Valley, Carneddau
SH 65202 66723; 53.18046°N, 4.01853°W
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Afon Ogwen Footbridge, Tanysgafell
Footbridge
Date
25 April 2020
Location
Afon Ogwen, Tanysgafell, Bethesda
SH 61636 66764; 53.17992°N, 4.07187°W
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Afon Ogwen Footbridge (fire spinning);
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Tynal Tywyll, Lon Las Ogwen – Dinas Railway Tunnel
Dinas Tunnel – the former branch-line railway tunnel between Tregarth and Bethesda, known informally as Tynal Tywyll (dark tunnel).
Date
4 April 2020
Location
Dinas Tunnel, Lon Las Ogwen, Tregarth
SH 60818 68185; 53.19247°N, 4.08473°W
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Pont Pen-y-benglog
Pont Pen-y-benglog, Llyn Ogwen
Date
28 March 2020
Location
Llyn Ogwen
SH 64914 60537; 53.12482°N, 4.02023°W
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In the early 19th century, Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) built the A5 road as the main London-to-Dublin mail route. The current ‘Pont Pen-y-benglog’ bridge over the Afon Ogwen was built to replace a difficult, steep section of the earlier coach route at the western end of Llyn Ogwen. The surviving arch of the earlier, medieval pack-horse bridge can be seen below the present one.
Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind farm
Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm
Date
3 January 2020
Location
Viewed from Welsh Mountain Zoo, Colwyn Bay
SH 83619 78854; 53.29380°N, 3.74753°W
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Mersey Gateway Bridge
Mersey Gateway Bridge
Date
25 August 2018
Location
Runcorn – Widnes, Cheshire
SJ 52369 84471; 53.35494°N, 2.71707°W
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The Mersey Gateway Bridge is a 2.3 km-long, 6-lane, cable-stayed bridge carrying the A533 road over the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal. The £600 million bridge links Runcorn and Widnes and is maintained by Halton Borough Council. Construction of the bridge, designed by Knight Architects, commenced in 2014 and it opened in 2017. It was built to relieve congestion on the Runcorn through-arch bridge, which opened in 1961 and was renamed the Silver Jubilee Bridge in 1977. This in turn had replaced a Victorian steam-powered transporter bridge that could convey four cars at a time across the Mersey.
When the new bridge opened the old one was closed for refurbishment and it will reopen as a toll bridge (it was previously free to cross). The tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge itself operate using automatic number plate recognition and must be paid online within 24 hours. This has proved to be highly controversial with criticisms of unclear signposting. In the first month 50,000 motorists were issued with penalty charge notices for failure to pay the toll. In 2018 tribunals ruled that the tolls and penalties were in fact in breach of consumer and transport legislation because of improper implementation. The charges continue to be imposed, however, as the rulings were for specific cases and technically do not have general effect.
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