The area close to where I live was once occupied by coal mining. The local colliery – Brookhouse Colliery – closed for good in 1985. While the colliery land has been re-purposed in the intervening years – much of it as a country park with large lakes where opencast workings once were – there is still plentiful evidence for it’s industrial past.
In the area around the Trans-Pennine trail there is a network of railway lines, one still active for passenger and goods use, but the others now disused with the tracks and the other equipment removed. Their presence can be felt in the various cuttings and bridges that still remain though.
Today’s images are of one of the surviving bridges – this one crossing the River Rother. Once, while exploring the surrounding area, I found myself atop this bridge and walked its length – a process that became significantly hastier when I noticed holes in the metal beneath my feet! I’ve not been atop the bridge since then, but there is a footpath that runs beneath it beside the river, which is where these were taken.
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Ilford Delta 400 – Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins
Taken on 4 April 2020
Steel City Snapper photography 
Wonderful photos. I like old bridges a lot. You’ve been getting a lot of good use out of your Sure Shot Telemax. Based on all the photos you’ve taken with it, it looks like a very solid point-and-shoot. Out of curiosity, do you generally leave the focal length fixed at a certain place while shooting, or do you actually use the zoom functionality?
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Hi P. With most compacts, even the ones with zooms, I tend to just shoot them at their wide setting. A lot of the time the zoom doesn’t hold up the same quality, or reduces the aperture so much that camera shake can become apparent. I do occasionally use the zoom if required though – the Telemax is just a two focal length zoom, so it’s wide or telephoto, nothing inbetween, so it’s a little limited in that regard.
I’ve used a bunch of Canon Sure Shot models and been happy with all of them so far. The one’s I’ve used have all been good cameras with nice image quality and they don’t yet command too high a price-point either.
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Thanks for the information and answering my curiosity. I don’t shoot point-and-shoot cameras often, but when I do my approach is the same: I tend to leave the lens at its widest focal length. I think a lot of us do this. In my case I think it’s because I’m so used to shooting prime lenses on SLR’s that something doesn’t feel right about using a zoom, even on a compact. I never use zooms on SLR’s. Take care! I hope all is going well for you and your family.
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Thanks P. My family and I are currently all well, although my wife is now working on a ward of COVID-19 positive patients, so that’s “interesting”, to use a phrase.
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Good to hear you’re all doing well. Yeah, I would assume that is an “interesting” situation. But I’m sure everything will work out just fine. I wish you all the best. Take care.
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Thanks P. Appreciate that.
Hope you and yours are safe and well too.
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Several years ago I pined to visit an abandoned old bridge that’s remarkably analogous to this one, in the mountains to the west of our city. It spans a breathtakingly deep gorge. A like-minded friend had planned to join me, we’d been talking about it for years, it’s a historic site and we wanted to see if we could uniquely capture it through our viewfinders. But alas, this is the Instagram era and so many young people were posting public pictures of themselves engaged in death-defying, dangerous stunts on the bridge, the landowner (a logging company, I believe) severely restricted future access. Such a disappointment to us.
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Wonderful photos of the abandoned bridge. There just something about old bridges. Thanks for the posting.
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Thanks Geri. I wonder what the future for bridges such as this will be. There’s no foot or vehicular traffic across it any longer (apart from the brave or foolhardy!), although a footpath passes beneath it beside the river. I would expect that it must be surveyed for structural integrity, but there would likely be no value in keeping it standing should it ever reach the state where it poses a threat to safety. I guess at that point it will be demolished and then be gone for ever.
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I hate to see things like that torn down, except for public safety reasons. I am sure that the public will paid for its demolition and not the ones that profited by it.
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