No. 704: Green Lanes, N13
Deadman’s Bridge, Green Lanes, London, N13. Photo © Roger Dean 2012
On Green Lanes just north of the North Circular in N13 is a small bridge called Deadman’s Bridge. Nobody seems to know why it is inflicted with such a moniker but it seems to be an ancient tag rather than one of modern times. What is known is that the bridge spans the Pymmes Brook a fifteen and a half kilometre tributary of the River Lea. Attached to the bridge is the plaque in the photograph above the inscription on which reads:
‘COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
TAKE NOTICE that this Bridge
which is a County Bridge is insufficient to carry
weights beyond the ordinary traffic of the
District and that the owners and persons in
charge of LOCOMOTIVE TRACTION ENGINES
and heavily laden CARRIAGES are warned
against using the Bridge for the passage of
any such Engines or Carriages
Richd. Nicholson
Clerk of the Peace.’
R.D.
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