http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Happy birthday chain bridge en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:17:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-367609 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:27:26 +0000 gembo 367609@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When completed in 1820 it was the longest iron suspension bridge in the world</p> <p>It then appears to have lasted 150 years without any bother</p> <p>Some stuff repaired in 1970s</p> <p>Then faunty from 2007.</p> <p>It is a lovely bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-367603 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:40:16 +0000 amir 367603@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hurrah! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-367601 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:13:00 +0000 Arellcat 367601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As it was a couple of summers ago, messing up my East Lothian cycle tour route!</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/2mfBkdV"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51361152433_f8c4a1250d_z.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2mfBkdV">Suspension bridge temporarily suspended</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-367600 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:52:14 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 367600@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Now reopen:</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65274771" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65274771</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-348043 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:23:41 +0000 chdot 348043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.chainbridgehoney.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chainbridgehoney.com/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-348042 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:49:36 +0000 gembo 348042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ta </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-348036 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:13:32 +0000 Rosie 348036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have never heard of this bridge, and I'm as middle-class as miso. I will certainly visit when it's back up again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-348032 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:36:25 +0000 MV 348032@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>On BBC news website</blockquote><br /> Here's the link:<br /> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-56359421" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-56359421</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-348022 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:41:12 +0000 gembo 348022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The bridge has gone.</p> <p>On BBC news website </p> <p>The chains are still there.</p> <p>It is getting fixed for ten million then coming back, </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-335816 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:21:53 +0000 acsimpson 335816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I paid the bridge a visit at the start of the month. Although I stopped short of singing happy birthday I have cycled over it. I didn't come all the way back to Edinburgh the same day either so perhaps I still have that to try.</p> <p>The Honey Farm's onsite facilities are currently closed but they are offering click and collect. I found them very accommodating of a short notice purchase despite their website saying 48 hours. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334751 Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:28:52 +0000 PS 334751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a fine bridge, and the honey farm bus is a good target destination for a cross border raid from Edinburgh via Duns (just over 100 miles IIRC). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334746 Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:02:23 +0000 davecykl 334746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been over said chain bridge by bike, it is rather shoogly! It is rather astonishingly also still open to light motor vehicles (with a weight limit of 1.5 tonnes or something like that, and sturdy stone bollards at either end to make sure that nobody tries to drive anything too wide across).</p> <p>There is also an even narrower pedestrian chain bridge over the Tweed at Melrose, which by pure coincidence I walked across today! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334738 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:28:07 +0000 gembo 334738@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ford and Etal being Northumbrian Hamlets fairly close to that bridge by Audax standards </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334736 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:14:04 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 334736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bridge is on the Etal-u-Can audax route </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334732 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 15:07:08 +0000 gembo 334732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Poached egg? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334730 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 14:26:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 334730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do like a bridge. But I have never crossed this one and only recently learned of its existence, despite being profoundly middle class. (Just had my egg on top of my black pudding and some smoked paprika on my sauteed potatoes.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334729 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 14:19:41 +0000 urchaidh 334729@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Me! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334728 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 14:04:51 +0000 acsimpson 334728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also a suspect on this one. I have walked over the bridge from the Honey Farm, although only once in each direction despite being a regular visitor to Coldingham since before I was born.</p> <p>One day I will cycle there (and hopefully also take my Veloviewer cluster with me.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334727 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:59:51 +0000 Frenchy 334727@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I estimate several more from the forum will have been too.</em></p> <p>Guilty. Also a highlight of the trip for me.</p> <p>Happy birthday, bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334726 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:48:56 +0000 gembo 334726@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Like everyone else in the middle class bubble we used to go on hols when kids were little to Bamburgh. The chain bridge was always a highlight.</p> <p>Greenroofer has been over. </p> <p>I estimate several more from the forum will have been too.</p> <p>Was at forth bridges last night. They are good too. Only one illegal car on the road bridge. Two trains in the time we were there. Big queue at Grazianos Fish and Chip shop so we skipped that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334725 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:32:07 +0000 jdanielp 334725@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Many happy returns (across the bridge)!</p> <p>I stayed at a guest house between the bridge and the honey farm in 2009, just after starting cycling again, and have a photograph of me on my bike on the bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20302#post-334724 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:25:38 +0000 gembo 334724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The chain bridge from Scotland across the tweed to England and the Honey Farm/Factory with the cafe in the Double Decker Bus, is 200 today.</p> <p>A few miles inland from Berwick Upon Tweed</p> <p>From the news item - it was the longest bridge of its type (chain suspension) when it opened in 1820 </p>