The railway arch erected in 1834 at Norton Avenue/ Darlinton Lane. Photograph courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron 
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The railway arch erected in 1834 at Norton Avenue/ Darlinton Lane. Photograph courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron
I was always led to believe Fuzzy Bridge was actually called FUSWICK Bridge ?
In the 1960s when our family lived in Carlisle, we travelled across to family in Leicester Road, Albany Estate, always via this bridge and I remember the excitement this bridge would always give me as I knew we were ‘nearly there.’ Another part of my childhood gone.
In 1983, just to the south of here where the railway approaches Doncaster Crescent me and a mate (his idea) ventured out in the -15° cold to nick a NER tresspass sign. He”s still got it now although we nearly paid for it with our toes. Damn heavy things them!
During the building of houses in Norton, BLUE -HALL FARM was demolished to allow access to Norton High Street via Leven Road. The Yorkshire Bank is on this site now. The council originally intended calling it the RIVERS estate as the streets are named after River Tees tributary”s, but the more rural name was adopted. Older folk still call it “Old Blue Hall “as opposed to the later 1930 estate to the south, of Norton Avenue alongside Fuzzy-Bridge” and railway
Does anyone know how Bluehall got it”s name?
My brother Chris., wasn”t so lucky whilst going through “fuzzy” bridge, he was run over by a motor bike but not badly hurt.The funny bit (there”s allways one in a tradgedy isn”t there?) was he had a tyre mark from his knee to the top of his head just like in Tom n Jerry.
The much wider replacement on the bypass had a pedestrian crossing just to the Norton side of it. Coming from Durham Road towards Norton I”d stopped to let a midddle age pedestrian to cross. He stepped onto the crossing & was nearly mowed down by motorist who couldn”t have “clocked” the beacons. He was pretty smart as he leapt back back onto the pavement. We looked at each other & shrugged shoulders at each other. A guy driving a Vauxhall estate had come to a halt, & the pedestrian started to cross again. There was an almighty bang as the Vauxhall was rammed up the rear end, forcing it forward some 25 feet, nearly getting the pedestrian again. This time his instincts saved him as he leapt the other way accross the road, to where he was going. He looked at me, shook his head, and left poste haste. I backed the car off the crossing & got out to check on the Vauxhall. It came as a shock to realise that I couldn”t see the driver, so I opened the door to find him, still sitting in his seat, which had snapped it”s retaining bolts & was lying on it”s back parallel to the road. The driver of the other car, a brand new Rover 2000, was having a nervous breakdown, it was borrowed from someone else. That”s my abiding memory of the replacement for “fuzzick” bridge.
Hello, my name is Joanne Riddle and I have named my business after this very bridge. This was in memory of my Nanna Mary, who used to live very close to this bridge as a young girl. I was looking for a quirky name for the business and it appeared that there was nothing to beat this one for sentiment. Nanna would have been delighted….
This bridge “Disappeared” 2005 as part of the flood protection for the ring-road. “Blue-Bridge”, pipe-work was layed and the bridge “filled-in” with rocks and boulders, earth was then layed and is it now overgrown. As part of the 1834 embankmen A “Time-Capsule” was planted in the tunnel with history of bridge and its surroundings by Norton Heritage, before its sealing in July 2005
Yes I remember fuzzy bridge,I used to go through to Ragworth on occasions. I cannot remember why it was called fuzzy bridge though.
Does anyone remember the railway arch at the end of Norton Avenue, didn”t it get called “Fuzzy Bridge”. Anyone remember why?
Going under several names “Fuzzy” George Fossick the engineer who put in this line to carry coal from South-Durham to Stockton Quay 1834. “Cuckoo Railway” Bridge, as the first cuckoos were heard along the tree covered embankment. This was one of the earliest brick built bridges on the rail system. Actually there were two alongside each other, the other was a “Cattle-Bridge” to allow stock to graze both sides of the embankment. It was demolished in the 1970s to make way for the ring-road and “Blue-Bridge”. The making of this road blocked the embankment beck , which is the reason for the flooding during heavy rain. This bridge stands on the site of war-time tragedy August 15th 1941 7-30 pm was a dull evening with a threat of rain. No air-raid siren sounded when a stick of 5 x 500lb bombs “Walked” from the Kiora gun-site S./E. 4 dropped in open fields (now Roseworth) the 5th struck 160 Norton Avenue , about 20 ft from the photo killing 5 boys, the mother and grandmother of the Boundy family. The boys were pupils of Frederick Nattrass School and Scouts and Cubs of 1st Norton Scout troop .