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by Gizbeech - 12th Dec 2025 10:54am
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To settle the argument once and for all, the newsreel is of the opening of Duke St Bridge on 3rd march 1931. Birkenhead News the following day...
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Nice one Marty99Fred - that does settle the bridge.
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I wondered if anyone would notice that!! The last paragraph would make a lot more sense if the two locos were LMS & GWR.
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The copper capped chimney gives it away as a Great Western loco.
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Just found this pic titled Seacombe road bridges 1932
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were did you find that oldie, that's brill?
must have been so easy
around town, not alot of cars them days.
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Nice one bert1 - the bridges look cleaner than they did on the 'opening' video !!! - weird..
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May as well add this one, the penny bridge 1957.
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May as well add this one, the penny bridge 1957.
That exact place still floods there to this day after some heavy rainfall.
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around town, not alot of cars them days. 
