On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM, David Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just had an email in relation to some stuff on my web site which > has had me trawling around t'Interweb for the last hour or so and > pretty much drawing a blank. The question was in relation to the Vazon > railway bridge at Keadby, and did I know the derivation of the name. > My digging has turned up that it might (not a definitive site) have > been built by William Arrol, the company behind the second Tay Bridge, > Tower Bridge and the Humber Bridge amongst others, but I can't find > anything definitive linking William Arrol & Co to the Vazon Bridge. I > know there's a Vazon Bay on Guernsey, but that's about as far as I've > got in that direction.
Not that I can be certain, but I suspect the road swing bridge there was built first, and called Vazon Bridge. I would check land registry records of the time the canal was built and see if it was named after a farmer/land owner, or perhaps after a bridge keeper, though an unusual name so not very likely. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughod/3046653346/ > > ...which is the first aerial shot I've seen of the bridge in question. and a great shot it is too. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
