Blue Bridge, York
This name has been used by a series of bridges.
From Wikipedia [1]:-
'The Blue Bridge crosses the River Foss just above its confluence with the River Ouse. The original bridge on the site was built in 1738, the current one being constructed in 1929–30.
'In the early 1730s a section of the eastern river bank of the Ouse was improved, at the expense of the city, to create an area lined with trees along which the citizens could promenade. It proved so popular that within a few years this New Walk was extended further south past the junction with the Foss by way of a wooden drawbridge. This new bridge was painted blue and the colour and name have endured though the bridge itself has been replaced several times, the first of these being in 1768 when a single-arch stone bridge was constructed. In 1792 the Foss Navigation Company built a wooden swing-bridge to enable boats to access the Foss and this type of bridge was used again when the bridge was rebuilt in 1834. In 1857–58 an iron opening-bridge was built along with two stone plinths upon which stood two Russian cannons. These had been captured at the Battle of Sebastopol in 1855 and became the Crimean War Memorial in York and as such were retained when the current bridge was built in 1929–30 only to be removed in 1941 when they were scrapped and reused for the war effort.] In 2020, the bridge was to be temporarily removed for refurbishments, with a scaffold bridge.'
1834 'Blue Bridge - New Walk.- We are requested to state, that the Foss Navigation Company have given orders, some time since, to Messrs Pickersgill and Oates, to make a plan and estimate of a new swing bndge, which has been approved by the committee, and is now being executed by Messrs. Craven and Sons, and will be erected over the Foss in a very few days. The Navigation Company have sustained great loss the last autumn, by the continued high floods, which rendered it impossible for vessels to pass under the bridge ; but the new one is only to be opened in time of floods, when the New Walk is impassable to foot passengers.'[2]