On 07/10/2014 16:18, charles wrote:
In article , Nightjar
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I am sure I recall driving over a new bridge next to the girder bridge,
although I haven't been that way for a while now. Has that been replaced
as well? Nevertheless, my point remains that the 'temporary' girder
bridge lasted the best part of 60 years.

Look at wiki for the whole story

Very pretty bridge. Google maps obviously needs to be updated:

http://goo.gl/maps/kEduZ
http://goo.gl/maps/rP096

income tax was a temporary thing to pay for the Napoleonic War.

That version was temporary, being abolished in 1816. It is the temporary
tax of 1842 that has stayed with us until today.

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Colin Bignell