Three Bridges : An Attempt

This blog was 'imagined' whilst sitting, lying, dozing and screaming (silently!) for the rest of the tests. Mrs fbb visited at 1130 so just  few minutes of on screen action.

Then fbb was trundled off for an Endoscopy. He returned later and continued the blog.

The above picture (Google Earth) is looking towards Rotherham along the traditional main road via Attercliffe and Tinsley.

The former Midland Railway main line crosses the road on a bridge which fbb has always called "Norfolk Bridge" It then crosses the River Don on multiple arches which is also called Norfolk Bridge in many articles.

Running parallel to the railway is a road called Leveson Street.

fbb believes that Leveson Street traverses the River Don on the real and genuine Norfolk Bridge. Here are the three bridges plus the main road in geographical context.

And here are the three viewed from the east across Burton Weir.

To be pedantic, the road bridge is off shot to the right but fbb liked the preserved train! Burton Weir did not always look so pretty.

Here we have today's view!

Pity about the graffiti! Broadly the buildings remain much the same. But the pollution has gone.

But here is a teaser. 

What has this former industrial corner of Sheffield got to do with a rather flat county way out east? The answer is him ...

... the 18th (and current) Duke of Norfolk, or even him ...

... the 3rd Duke of Norfolk. 

Duking is a historic, ancestral and mysterious game somewhat lost to the puny minds of snivelling forelock tuggers like us.

Suffice it to say, the Dukehood of Norfolk is very noble, just below the monarchy in status, and hugely rich.

And his dukemess has his ancestral seat, not in Norfolk, but in Sussex at Arundel Castle.

The Duke of Norfolk owns vast chunks of  Sheffield, estates that were managed from a very posh office block in the poshes part of the city centre.

The the hospital internet evaporated.

Then fbb's tabled decided to lock up and become useless.

Then dinner arrived.

Then fbb's phone found the internet but not fbb's stock of pictures, carefully curated and downloaded for these blog posts.

 

FBB FAILED UTTERLY!!

Procedure expected yesterday morning did not

happen until 1500, so a second night stay!

Boy it was HOT!

Back home later today?

fbb