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Revision as of 19:34, 14 February 2022




An attractive cast iron arch bridge in Liverpool.
It carries a footpath (originally Athol Street) over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Built in 1861.
Ironwork by R. and J. Rankin.
The 1890/1893 O.S. map shows the Athol Street bridge, with a hydraulic pumping station immediately to the north west, a gas works immediately south west, and a sugar refinery immediately north west.[1]
Geograph entry here.
Boundary Bridge is 150 yds to the north.
To the south, the canal branches off to Stanley Dock.