----- Original Message ----- From: "BARRY HOLLAND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Little Venice
> > > Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However the situation > there may change > as there are plans to landscape the area when they put in the new > footbridge > (actually the old Bishop's Bridge by Brunel, retored and relocated). When > that happens (next year or the year after) > > > Somewhere in the flurry of replies re LV I think I saw that plans to > re-erect this bridge have been shelved. Are you saying [& I hope you are] > that , @ some indeterminate time in the future, the bridge will * > definitely* be replaced? > & just where could it go? I'm sure we've corresponded about this before. > A logical place for a bridge would surely be between Rembrandt Gardens & > the towpath between the puppet boat & Warwick Avenue road bridge, as > indeed was the temporary case one year. Or , thinking more grandly, how's > about a "Wembley-style" arch over Browning's Pool? > Barry > Nb onesmallstepforman The original plans for a footbridge next to the Harrow Road bridge go back several years, but as mentioned elsewhere the foundations went in and then nothing else happened. However, I have been told that the Brunel bridge will be used for the span when the footbridge is finally built some time in the not-too-distant future. This has special significance for me, as there is a hope that a memorial to my late husband, Richard Bird, will be placed somewhere nearby by the IWA London Region and South London branch. There were plans for a footbridge between the Rembrandt Gardens side of the pool and the north towpath, but the design turned out to be unsuitable also there were objections by the local residents' group, and so that fell by the wayside. That would be a useful facility. We used to have a scaffolding bridge for Cavalcade, but increasing costs and stricter 'elf'n'safety' rules put an end to that. Dorothy
