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Friday 29 October 2021

Tommy's Cuttings #2

The cuttings below were collected & provided by Tommy Knox:
Note - Ian on the Poclain first made & later removed a route for farm access
(Northern Echo 8 August 1986)
(Newcastle Journal 8 August 1986)
Note - MSC worked on other TR schemes
(Newcastle Chronicle 8 August 1986)

Thanks to Derek Charlton for liaising with the local press.

2 comments:

Michael Denholm said...

Thank goodness for 'Tommy's Cuttings!' The man had(has) foresight.

Strawberry_Lynn said...

I didn't realise that there had been a 13-year gap between the demolition of Gibraltar Bridge and its reconstruction. The tale I heard was that it was illegally demolished - which caused a whole load of outrage - and (just about) immediately rebuilt. Great job though, those people