Two views of Yarm Bridge. The bridge at Yarm marked the furthest reach of tidal flow up the River Tees until the opening of the Tees Barrage in 1995 c1978.
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Two views of Yarm Bridge. The bridge at Yarm marked the furthest reach of tidal flow up the River Tees until the opening of the Tees Barrage in 1995 c1978.
Charles Morris gave a talk in Newcastle in February 2013 to the Newcomen Society on the “Bridges of the River Tees”. He started with the bridges at Yarm. There was an attempt in the early 1800s to build a huge single span cast iron bridge to supplement the medieval bridge. Unfortunately within a few days of completion, the cast iron bridge fell down as the side thrusts were too great for the hunches.
The solution to Yarm’s traffic problems was to widen the existing stone bridge, by effectively building an other bridge, directly along side the existing one. So Yarm bridge is unique, combining ancient and modern.
Strange coincidence that these photos should be posted up today as the Evening Gazette is carrying the story of a wartime mortar bomb being found by a diver close to the bridge.