This is the closest I got with my camera to the Stert Culvert Repairs.
So many thanks to Richard for sending me these pictures – taken earlier today –
of workmen being lowered into the River Stert at the Abbey Gateway.
This is the closest I got with my camera to the Stert Culvert Repairs.
So many thanks to Richard for sending me these pictures – taken earlier today –
of workmen being lowered into the River Stert at the Abbey Gateway.
How do we know that these last 2 photos aren’t the wrong way round? Maybe that’s why there’s been a problem with the culvert in the first place….!
Its interesting that if, next time your in town you look at the wall on the old court (which is behind the man with the red hemet in the second picture) There is a bridge type arrangement in the stonework. I had always wondered why so today when I saw the manhole open I had a nose down. Well at that point the Stert is about 8ft wide flowing fairly fast and directly under the stonework i was looking at. I know the Stert used to be open with bridges to the houses on Stert street. I wonder if it was open under the court and the building bridged it or if it was always a bricked in arch built that way to support the building. I guesst it was the latter as the church has no fancy stone work over that part?…