{"id":66007,"date":"2010-06-21T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=66007"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:49:15","slug":"halfpenny-bridge-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=66007","title":{"rendered":"Halfpenny Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65987\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1.jpg 788w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1-374x300.jpg 374w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1-150x120.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HalfpennyBridgeBuilt-1869-1-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We have photographs of the halfpenny bridge being blown up but this is the first one I have seen of it being built in 1869.&nbsp;It was built by Gilks and Wilson, and was 126 feet high and 650 feet long.&nbsp;The tolls were: Pedestrians \u2013 half-penny.&nbsp; Bicycles and rider \u2013 one penny.&nbsp; Carriages \u2013 half-penny per wheel, passengers \u2013 one half-penny.&nbsp; (Information courtesy of Howard Wilson). Originally built to facilitate travel to Skelton Castle the bridge was unable to be used by motorised traffic and so in the later 20th century was use by walkers, cyclists, horse riders&nbsp;and horse drawn vehicles until it\u2019s demise in December 1974.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Any more photographs of this bridge out there that you would like to share with us?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have photographs of the halfpenny bridge being blown up but this is the first one I have seen of it being built in 1869.&nbsp;It was built by Gilks and Wilson, and was 126 feet high and 650 feet long.&nbsp;The tolls were: Pedestrians \u2013 half-penny.&nbsp; Bicycles and rider \u2013 one penny.&nbsp; Carriages \u2013 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saltburn","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66011,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66007\/revisions\/66011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}