A great view of the Halfpenny Bridge what a beautiful structure it was such a pity it wasn’t maintained so more people could have marvelled at it today. Callum Duff tells us: ”The Saltburn Bridge (to give the bridge its proper name) was originally built for two reasons; to ease the journey of carriage traffic from Saltburn to Skelton (or Brotton by a more circuitous route) and to link a second stage of housing development at Saltburn. The Skelton & Gilling Estates planned to release plots of land on the east side of Saltburn Lane on a site provisionally known as Bank Top. This building opportunity was never seized upon, I imagine as the Saltburn Improvement Company encouraged developers to buy land near Saltburn and its other facilities or possibly economic reasons stifled further expansion. In any case after the popularity of cars replaced horse and cart traffic (the bridge could have handled cars but only one at a time), the Saltburn Bridge became redundant.”
Image courtesy of Geoff Hore; thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
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