The temporary footbridge over the River Wharfe in Tadcaster starts to take shape. Picture: Frank Dwyer
THE much-needed footbridge in Tadcaster is to be delayed for a few days.
From the pictures I see that it is a double/single Bailey Bridge.
It will have taken nearly three weeks to erect.
Fifty years ago, myself and my sapper comrades could span a river the same width as the Wharfe in less than 12 hours.
It all would be done by hand. The panels were a four-man load, the transoms eight. The bridge built on rollers would be manually pushed across the gap to land on a set of rollers on the other side.
It strikes me that it is utterly pathetic that is has taken so long to erect what is in effect a giant Meccano set, considering how desperately-needed a bridge still is.
John Naylor, Cuddy Brown Close, Pickering
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