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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.
A few miles inland from Berwick Upon Tweed
From the news item - it was the longest bridge of its type (chain suspension) when it opened in 1820
Many happy returns (across the bridge)!
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.
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.
Greenroofer has been over.
I estimate several more from the forum will have been too.
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.
I estimate several more from the forum will have been too.
Guilty. Also a highlight of the trip for me.
Happy birthday, bridge.
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.
One day I will cycle there (and hopefully also take my Veloviewer cluster with me.)
Me!
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.)
Poached egg?
Bridge is on the Etal-u-Can audax route
Ford and Etal being Northumbrian Hamlets fairly close to that bridge by Audax standards
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).
There is also an even narrower pedestrian chain bridge over the Tweed at Melrose, which by pure coincidence I walked across today!
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).
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.
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.
The bridge has gone.
On BBC news website
The chains are still there.
It is getting fixed for ten million then coming back,
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.
Ta
As it was a couple of summers ago, messing up my East Lothian cycle tour route!
Hurrah!
When completed in 1820 it was the longest iron suspension bridge in the world
It then appears to have lasted 150 years without any bother
Some stuff repaired in 1970s
Then faunty from 2007.
It is a lovely bridge.
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