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Remember this bridge

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Bronco, Nov 8, 2018.

  1. Bronco

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    Just looking through a few of my old pictures with regards Bradford City and came across this one of the old bridge over the railway lines coming out of Foster Square, wish I'd a £5 for every time I walked across that bridge from the Fox & Goose on Canal Road.
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  2. Bantamsteve

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    It used to creak and groan as you walked across it
    Many a time when a good few people were using it I thought it would collapse
    Great memories
     
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  3. Offside

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    I used to use the Bridge every home game , parked at the end of Valley road back of the old goods yard .
     
  4. Tennesseebantam

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    Walk down from Fagley, pass the old Acid place (Leather's?) Then across the bridge hoping I wouldn't fall through. Way back was across the bridge, down past Tiffin Cafe and bus from Foster Square back home.
     
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    Me and my mates at Carlton School walked over it daily .... Had a quick lunch and brew in the 'Tiffin' Cafe, nearby.
     
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    Ahhh, nostalgia. It's not like it used to be! ;)
     
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  7. Steve1970

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    Didn't you @Bronco@Bronco @Offside@Offside construct it to get to the ground whilst @Onside@Onside supplied tea and biscuits...... :kissing::kissing:
     
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    ditto
     
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    I remember it well, got my head kicked in on it v Wigan.
     
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    Nah. @Onside@Onside was too busy Suffragettin'
     
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    Did you take that picture on the same camera you now use down at Apperley Bridge? :unsure:
     
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    Ah you know me so well. I have always been a rebel:)
     
  13. Bronco

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    I went down today no one about on the front pitch, I think they might have gone down to Aldershot today and do a training session at Aldershot's ground on Friday.
    It's a good camera but only as good as the photographer using it.
    [​IMG] and 50 X Zoom [​IMG]
     
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    When was that taken mate? The ground looks just as I remember it when I started going.
     
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    Did hamm strasse replace this then ? Same place ?
     
  16. Bronco

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    Yes I would think it would be around that area that is now Hamm Strasse.
     
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    We used the Fox & Goose late 60s early 70s so possibly it went around the late 70s, as I replies to @Fools Gold@Fools Gold I think it's where the Hamm Strasse was built, or a bit further on where Next & First Choice/TUI are in the retail park as you could get onto Midland Road from the bridge, if my memory serves me well ?.
     
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    I started going mid 70's an I don't recall the bridge at all but then my dad drove me to the ground. The cop is exactly as I remember it although it had a railing running down the middle
     
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    crossed it many a time after a few prematch looseners in the Ring O Bells on Bolton Road.
     
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  20. bantamdave41

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    Dave, found this photo on ''old photos of Bradford" on Facebook. Was the bloody thing safe? Didn't look it!!!! FB_IMG_1541776329516.jpg
     
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