Your bike on a bridge pics

[newts]

The Countess Wear Canal Swing was used for the rehearsal of the D-day attack on Pegasus bridge
(the current bascule bridge at the rear is modern).

A plaque at the bridges states:

"In May 1944, these bridges played an important part in the preparations for D-Day. They were used over a period of three days and nights, for rehearsals of the famous and crucial glider borne attack on the bridge over the Canal de Caen (Pegasus Bridge) and the River Orne (Horsa Bridge), by the Second Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on the night 5/6 June 1944."

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/countess_swing.php

 

[FrothNinja]

Cox Green Bridge, over the River Wear, at, surprise, surprise, Cox Green

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Some weird padlock cult? or a memorial to burgled sheds?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Some weird padlock cult? or a memorial to burgled sheds?

Probably courting couples making a pledge of eternal love or similar. More famous bridges like the rail bridge at Köln are so full of them you can't see the fence any more.

 

[PeteXXX]

Moy & Gairlochy bridges on the Caledonian Canal, near Spean, of Commando training fame.
Taken a few years ago but worth digging out as a theme with some of the previous ones.

 

[BoldonLad]

Some weird padlock cult? or a memorial to burgled sheds?

No idea really. It is something which has started fairly recently. I assumed that local youngsters must have been on school trip to Paris, and seen it done on bridges there, undying love, and all that.

 

[FrothNinja]

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Moy & Gairlochy bridges on the Caledonian Canal, near Spean, of Commando training fame.
Taken a few years ago but worth digging out as a theme with some of the previous ones.

I hear tell that many cyclists are commando

 

[All uphill]

No idea really. It is something which has started fairly recently. I assumed that local youngsters must have been on school trip to Paris, and seen it done on bridges there, undying love, and all that.

I always thought that a locked padlock as a symbol of love would go well with Police's "Every Step You Take..." as a wedding song.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I hear tell that many cyclists are commando

Not this one, never been commando.

 

[FrothNinja]

Not this one, never been commando.

Same - never been able to bring myself to do it, let alone butter my buns before doing so

 

[IaninSheffield]

Crossing the Aire at Airton

 

[Willd]

Over the Oxford Canal & Leamington - Banbury railway line

 

[Willd]

Railway line to MOD Kineton

 

[FrothNinja]

Brun Valley, Burnley

 

[Willd]

Over the Warwickshire Avon

 

[FrothNinja]

Bridge over the Calder, Todmorden Rd, Townley