Nostalgia - Chippenham town bridge (From Wiltshire Times)

Nostalgia - Chippenham town bridge

12:13pm Friday 29th May 2009

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Times' reader Keith Warburton, of Bratton, shares some memories this week.

His father John Warburton, who lived in Westbury for most of his life and died in 1994, aged 82, spent much of his working life as a draughtsman with Wiltshire County Council. For many years he worked for the highways department in Trowbridge, working on road and bridge designs, and worked on many projects to improve and upgrade the county’s roads as the volume of motor traffic using them grew.

Among his effects his son found a collection of before and after photographs documenting projects his father had worked on in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

They included these shots, above, of a project to improve the Town Bridge in Chippenham in 1966/67, when metal railings replaced the old stone parapets. Left, how the bridge looks today.

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