This stunning image of the award-winning Infinity bridge, captured by local amateur photographer Brian Swales, has become the ‘poster boy’ for a campaign being run in San Diego where local activists want to see their own local bridge similarly illuminated. Locals in Southern California are calling for the ‘San Diego – Coronado Bay Bridge’ to be lit in the same way and have used Brian’s breathtaking photography of Stockton’s bridge to show just how good it could look. America’s ’Dream Villager’ magazine – seen by thousands of readers in the State of California – has published the photograph taken by Brian, a member of Stockton Camera Club, after seeing the image on his website, to support their case for the Coronado Bridge to be lit at night.
None of those names mean anything to me I’m afraid Norman. Also I have never lived on or near Station Road and I have never had any connection with Norton Cricket Club. As a child we lived in Londonderry Road, Newtown.
Brian, I recall the Swales family and if memory is correct you lived on or near Station Road Norton. They were also friends of Captain Wilson and Mammie Kidner, his daughter that lived with them at ‘Vernadale’ on Junction Road, next to the postbox. You and I will be about the same age, Brian – Mammie used to talk of you all often. Did you have connections with Norton Cricket Club? Mammie died about ten years ago, we knew them when I was born in Milner Rd in 1928.
Nice bit of photography – congratulations.
I got the e-mail (via my web-site) asking permission to use this image a couple of weeks ago. It was for an article that was being written in a magazine called ‘Dream Villager’ . I had no idea where this magazine was based and was surprised when it turned out to be Southern California! The article, including my image, was published in the November edition.