Description
Humphrey Spender took a sequence of photographs of children playing on this railway bridge. There is still a bridge at the same location, and it is still covered in graffiti (2012). The barrels, which are just visible, could be for the tar used during the construction of St Peter’s Way.
I remember walking over the wooden bridge many times in the late thirtys and fortys and when all the lads I was with went over it it was deafening because we all had clogs on we also went over it because the tar yard some times was our play ground we would watch the men bring the barrels of tar out and line them up at the side of the sleepers that was also the fencing we would then wait till they went home at 5-30 we would then climb over the tar barrels had now just began to set and the game was to take your turn runin across all the barrels some of us made it and some of us didn’t because if you wasn’t fast enough one of your clogs would get stuck in the tar and you would pull your self up on the sleepers let yours self down and go and get your clog and the game was over when every body completed the game happy days
Thanks for sharing the memories Cyril!