tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59730304643609562762024-03-05T21:59:36.872+00:00Friar Gate Bridge Derby. A dedicated blog to this structure and its maker "Andrew Handyside"This blog is dedicated to Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd, the creator of Friar Gate Bridge in Derby. The aim of this blog is simple, People do not realise just how well renowned the work of Handyside was to Victorian life, I intend to show just how much impact he had on the world and why its important that we restore Friar Gate bridge in his honour.
I am a Trustee member of "Friends of Friar Gate Bridge", aiming to get this bridge restored.Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-50730077082702929412021-03-16T18:18:00.001+00:002021-03-16T19:41:44.023+00:00Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Made by Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd in 1870<p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trent Bridge is a Grade II listed road bridge over the River Trent in West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK.</span></p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It carries London Road (A60) over the river Trent, the bridge was started September 14th 1868 and completed 1871.
It was built by Andrew Handyside & Co of Derby, famous for their bridges and fountains in their hayday. All the stonework of the bridge was by Benton and Woodiwiss of Derby who built Bennerley Viaduct.
The bridge has three spans each of 100 feet with the stone arches of the approaches on either side, a total length of 700 feet. The road deck of the bridge stands 27 foot above the summer level of the river Trent.
</span><div><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watch my video here :</span></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dTGLMn2cta4" width="560"></iframe><div><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or use this link to watch it : </span><a href="https://youtu.be/dTGLMn2cta4" style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Made by Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd in 1870</a><span style="color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><div><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a 360 photograph I took inside the pedestrian tunnel and you can clearly see the different brickwork of the extended half :</span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="450" loading="lazy" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1615917160073!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE54d0o1U3p0Rnp4SmFkZDNwRTZhVUxLamNjaEhKRElBWUlhWFAw!2m2!1d52.9381217!2d-1.1359305!3f273.3773825242893!4f54.35299836280916!5f0.7820865974627469" style="border: 0;" width="600"></iframe><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In 1926 the Bridge was widened from 40ft to 80ft. Design by Mott, Hay and Anderson and the city engineer T. Wallis Gordon contractors for the project were Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co.
You can clearly where it was widened by looking underneath the spans such as at 3.24 On the left is the original 1869 construction, on the right is the newer part built 57 years later.</span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a photograph of the underside of one of the spans, the half nearest the camera is the original 1969 bridge and the other half is the 1926 construction.</span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/51043243623/in/dateposted-public/" title="Trent Bridge, Nottingham."><img alt="Trent Bridge, Nottingham." height="224" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51043243623_de28851804.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
The total ironwork in this bridge is 868 tons!
The nearby Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Trent Bridge stadium was named after this bridge.
At 2.47 I have shown a illustration of the bridge from my 1873 catalogue by A.Handyside and I have faded it into my 2018 photo from the same vantage point so you can see how its changed. Notice the round floodlights of Trent Bridge Cricket club appear.
The bridge has six lamp standards, each in the centre of the three spans on both sides.
Aside from the bridge there are 15 lamp standards on brick pillars inlayed with decorative tiles, these are located on the approach to the bridge in a wedge shaped bit of land between Arkright Street and London Road. In my 1873 guide it says "The lamp standards for lighting the approaches are dwarf columns fixed upon stone pillars. All the lamps are globes in one piece of glass, with copper finials and mountings, and supplied with gas in the usual manner."</span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a photograph I took of one of them, I would say those bases are not the original ones ! Maybe these lamps used to be closer to the approach of the bridge but they were all moved back here at some point, any one know ?</span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/51043978151/in/dateposted-public/" title="Trent Bridge, Nottingham."><img alt="Trent Bridge, Nottingham." height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51043978151_b6a7a7aa33.jpg" width="252" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
It has four carved stone refuges above the piers either side of the centre span, these are recesses along the parapet where pedestrians can come out of the
way of traffic, This is normally a feature of 16th Century bridges.
At 0.30 you can see the barrel vault structure inside the pedestrian tunnel on the west bank.
This video footage is from when I visited the bridge in April and May 2018 but only just got around to creating this video.
Points of interest in my video :
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=0s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:00</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> South side view of the three arches at water level.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=12s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:12</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close view of one of the decorative spandrels.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=17s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:17</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View underneath showing the different construction method where the bridge was widened in 1926.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=25s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:25</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> North side view of one of the arches.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=30s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:30</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Walking through the pedestrian tunnel, stonework by Benton and Woodiwiss of Derby.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=40s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:40</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The East abutment and reveal of arch.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=51s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">00:51</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of southern side arch from the east bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=61s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">01:01</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of the southern side arches from the west bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=64s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">01:04</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of two Piers supporting the refuges.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=79s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">01:19</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Walk along the decorative parapet.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=96s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">01:36</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close look at one of six decorative lamp standards.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=116s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">01:56</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of the northern side arches from the west bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=129s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">02:09</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of the southern side arches from the east bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=149s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">02:29</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of southern side parapet, stonework and first arch from the west bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=167s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">02:47</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> An 1870 Illustration from the 1873 catalogue by A.Handyside.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=171s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">02:51</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The same view but 148 years later.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=176s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">02:56</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View of the Northern side arches from the west bank.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=181s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:01</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close view of one of the ironwork on one of the spandrels.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=186s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:06</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close view of a decorative parapet.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=190s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:10</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close view of one of the decorative spandrels.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=195s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:15</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Close view of a decorative parapet.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=200s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:20</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sign showing A. Handyside & Co as contractors for the Ironwork.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=204s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:24</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> View showing where the bridge was widened in 1926.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=209s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:29</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Walk towards the west arch on the Southern side.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=239s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">03:59</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Ducklings with bridge in background. Like, Share and Subscribe if you like my videos.
</span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGLMn2cta4&t=256s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">04:16</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> End.
My Reference :
Page 153 Example No 25
Works in Iron - Bridge and Roof Structures by Ewing Matheson of the firm Andrew Handyside and Co., Engineers, Derby and London. Published by E & F.N. Spon 1873.
This bridge is also engraved in Gold on the front of this book and illustrated on the Frontispiece.
To see many more bridges that were built by Andrew Handyside see my dedicated blog to their work: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjJjblNEaHVKcDFqTXVhanZpckV4QWFndndOUXxBQ3Jtc0tsTWo0RUZfU2JTUnozXzE1a2tDVF9KTEdab1c5d09tWmdfNi1aZWxpV2MtWVFmSHpsdTVLbDNtcnFQdlJzaTJnZ3o3Nl9mWlh1NE1DbUYzWlY5eGpPbVRYX2NZeG0xemduUVVWSUJZNFU0ZnpyNFZJaw&q=http%3A%2F%2Ffriargatebridge.blogspot.com%2F" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Andy</span></div></div>Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0Trent Bridge, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 6AG, UK52.9360574 -1.132724724.625821515197583 -36.288977382209012 81.24629328480242 34.023527982209018tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-82081231400250199762021-03-13T10:57:00.002+00:002021-03-13T10:57:17.196+00:00Belper water Treatment works foot Bridge, made by Andrew Handyside in 1905<p>This footbridge is one of many bridges around the world made by Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd of Derby and London Who made Friargate bridge in Derby. This is an access bridge which leads across the river Derwent to Belper Sewage treatment plant, You can see this treatment plant at 01:07 in my video.</p><p>The bridge is about 100 Metres long total.</p><p>In my video I have showed how its constructed using a combination of Drone footage and my iPhone in a Gimbal. </p><p><br /></p>
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<p><br /></p><p>Or use this link to view my video : <a href="https://youtu.be/f7qfIIWo2zQ">https://youtu.be/f7qfIIWo2zQ</a></p><p>Thanks</p><p>Andy</p>Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-24936962987622596202019-06-26T15:49:00.000+01:002019-06-26T15:58:32.734+01:00Holliday Street Aqueduct, Birmingham made by Andrew Handyside & Co Derby in 1884As well as Derby's famous Friar Gate Bridge, Andrew Handyside also made many other bridges around the UK and the world. This blogpost is about Holliday Street Aqueduct, Birmingham, UK made by Andrew Handyside & Co Derby in 1884.<br />
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This Aqueduct carries the Worcester and Birmingham Canal over Holliday Street, it was made in Derby by Andrew Handyside & Co of Derby. Its quite a wide Aqueduct at 54.30 m (178.14 ft).<br />
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There are 24 cast iron columns (12 on each side), 4 of which are ornately decorated. The decorative columns are located on the South West and North East road entrances.<br />
Thee are 6 old style lamp posts providing light under the Aqueduct, at night there are spot lights which illuminate alternate arches from each side.<br />
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The Aqueduct is formed from a Cast iron frame trough which is carried on segmental brick vaults supported between guiders which are then supported by cross guiders on cast iron columns along the pavement edges.<br />
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Here is a video tour showing you all the details of this aqueduct<br />
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Or use this link to view the video : <a href="https://youtu.be/_dEXH7Il0IQ" target="_blank">Video tour of Holliday Street Aqueduct, Birmingham made by Andrew Handyside & Co Derby in 1884</a><br />
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I captured a 360 degree photograph up high next to the decorative iron work, see here : <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/1sMCNFeC2p2zfpGB9">https://goo.gl/maps/1sMCNFeC2p2zfpGB9</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Here is a Google Streetview of the bridge as seen from the road bridge:</span><br />
<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/J1Z41B7vcJPHxBow5" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Streetview of Barton Swing Aqueduct</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Andy</span>Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-49958927239735930982015-09-07T12:36:00.000+01:002015-09-07T18:43:14.695+01:00Barton Swing Aqueduct, Barton upon Irwell, Manchester, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894As well as Derby's famous Friar Gate Bridge, Andrew Handyside also made movable bridges!<br />
In Manchester are two such bridges located right next to each other. This blog post is about Barton Swing Aqueduct.<br />On 27th June 2015 I made a special journey to go and see one of Andrew Handyside's movable bridges. I have been wanting to see this bridge for many years so it was such a thrill to finally see it in real life. I arrived at the bridge from the canal path from Ashburton Road West. Its really strange seeing the entire canal suspended in mid air. There were no signs of any water leaks around the iron trough. Its amazing to think that this bridge was made in Derby 121 years ago and its still being used.<br />
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<b>Barton Swing Aqueduct</b> is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal.<br />
The swinging action allows large vessels using the ship canal to pass underneath and smaller narrowboats to cross over the top. The aqueduct, the first and only swing aqueduct in the world, is a Grade II* listed building, considered a major feat of Victorian civil engineering.<br />
Designed by Sir Edward Leader Williams and built by Andrew Handyside and Company of Derby, the swing bridge opened in 1894 and remains in regular use today.<br />
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<b>Aerial views showing Barton Swing Aqueduct and Barton swing road bridge.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barton Swing Aqueduct in the closed position.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barton Swing Aqueduct in the open position.</td></tr>
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The aqueduct is a form of swing bridge. When closed, it allows canal traffic to pass along the Bridgewater Canal. When large vessels need to pass along the ship canal underneath, the 1,450-tonne 330-foot long iron trough is rotated 90 degrees on a pivot mounted on a small purpose-built island.<br />
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Gates at each end of the trough retain around 800 tonnes of water; additional gates on each bank retain water in their adjacent stretches of canal.<br />
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My Photographs of Barton Swing Aqueduct taken June 2015 :<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barton Swing Aqueduct over the Manchester Ship canal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The Bridgewater Canal as it flows over Barton swing aqueduct.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see Barton Swing road bridge further down stream</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view looking up at Barton Swing Aqueduct.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side view of Barton Swing Aqueduct with a narrow Boat passing over it. This photograph taken from Barton Swing Road Bridge.</td></tr>
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The turning mechanism built into the central island consists of a 27-foot (8.2 m) race plate embedded in granite blocks. Sixty-four tapered cast iron rollers sit on top of the race plate, held in position by a spider ring. On top of that an upper race plate supports the aqueduct and its circular gear rack, which was powered by a hydraulic engine manufactured by Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell of Newcastle. <br />
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Hydraulic power was originally supplied by steam from two Lancashire boilers housed in a pumping station on the Eccles bank of the ship canal; a service culvert beneath the bed of the canal conveyed the water under pressure to the control tower on the island. <br />
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In 1939 the original hydraulic engines were replaced by a pair of radial three-cylinder engines manufactured by the Hydraulic Engineering Company of Chester, and the following year a power house was built on the island to house two electrically driven pumps. The old steam pumping station was demolished after the Second World War.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">The turning mechanism built into the central island. You can just about make out the Andrew Handyside logo on the left drum.</span></td></tr>
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Here is a photograph of the original stone Barton Aqueduct built in 1761, This was demolished in 1893 to make way for the one we see today.<br />
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<b>Videos of this Barton Swing Aqueduct :</b><br />
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Here is a time-lapse video of me walking along the canal path to Barton Swing Aqueduct Starting at Ashburton Road West (B5214).<br />
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Narrow Boat "Victoria" crosses the Barton Swing Aqueduct which allows the Bridgewater Canal to cross the Manchester Ship Canal.<br />
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The view from another Narrow boat going through Barton Swing Aqueduct.<br />
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The view from a Kayak going through Barton Swing Aqueduct.<br />
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Video showing the operation of Barton Swing Aqueduct as a Narrow boat uses it.<br />
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Here is a video showing the aqueduct from various angles :<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/4n4CJ6Y75Kg?t=4m38s" target="_blank">Barton swing aqueduct</a>.<br />
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Here is a Google Streetview of the bridge as seen from the road bridge:<br />
<a href="https://www.instantstreetview.com/@53.474221,-2.353241,49.96h,-3.73p,1z" target="_blank">Streetview of Barton Swing Aqueduct</a>.<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">My next blog post will be about the next movable bridge which is right next to this one !</span><br />
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Thanks<br />
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-5194076862745563462015-04-29T12:24:00.005+01:002015-05-04T08:09:29.508+01:00Midland Railway Bridge over River Trent at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894This railway bridge is on the Long Eaton to Leicester section of the Midland Counties Railway and carries trains over the river Trent (aka Trent Lock) at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK<br />
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Here at Trent Lock the three counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire meet up. This is also where the River Soar and River Trent connect with the Trent and Mersey Canal.<br />
Just down river from this bridge is Thrumpton Weir.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/15772594314" title="Midland Railway Bridge over River Trent at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894 by Andy savage, on Flickr"><img alt="Midland Railway Bridge over River Trent at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894" height="368" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8681/15772594314_4dc217a0f6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
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The engineer for this was Mr J.A. McDonald.<br />
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Work on the original bridge (See technical engraving below, Original bridge at back, Handyside one in foreground) started in June 1838, a foundation stone was laid in December 1838 by its designer Charles Vignoles. This original bridge had three spans of 100 foot flanked<br />
by ten twenty-five foot flood arches on the north side and two on the south. The ironwork for the original bridge was supplied by The Butterly company of Derbyshire and was completed in October 1839.<br />
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Here is a technical engraving of the new bridge with the orignal Vignoles bridge behind it.<br />
Drawing from The Engineer January 12th 1894 :<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/16209062497" title="Midland Railway Bridge over River Trent at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894 by Andy savage, on Flickr"><img alt="Midland Railway Bridge over River Trent at Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, UK built by Andrew Handyside in 1894" height="357" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8573/16209062497_fff953416d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Andrew Handyside were contracted to install the second bridge to cater for the two extra tracks in 1894, you can see Vignoles original bridge in the background behind the new one. It would appear that Andrew Handyside may have replaced the original bridge too at a later date as this is in the same style as the additional 1894 one.<br />
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I created a looping Vine video showing this bridge which I took from a train window. you can see the structure :<br />
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Here is another view of the Handyside bridge close up<br />
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Red Hill Tunnel into which this railway line passes is 133 yards long, 26 1/2 Foot diameter and was built by the contractor Wm. Mackenzie.<br />
The North end of the tunnel is castellated in Norman Style architecture.<br />
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Orignally there was just one tunnel here (built 1830's) but in 1895 the line was expanded to four tracks and a second tunnel was was dug adjacent to the original tunnel. The very same castellated entrance was applied to the new one.<br />
The reason that the railway tunnel was castellated was as a concession to the owner of Thrumpton Hall, whose estate this section of railway passes through!<br />
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Here is a photograph showing the castellated entrances to the tunnels. The one on the right is the original 1830's tunnel. The one on the left is the younger 1892-93 tunnel to cope with the two extra railway tracks :<br />
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The Midland Counties Railway (MCR) was a railway company that existed between 1839 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby vis a junction with the London and Birmingham Railway.<br />
The MCR system connected with the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway in Derby at what become known as the Tri Junct Station.<br />
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<b>Links for further reading :</b><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Blacker_Vignoles" target="_blank">Charles Blacker Vignoles.</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Counties_Railway" target="_blank">Midland Counties Railway</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">View my </span><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=-33.965235,25.606036&spn=0.002639,0.004128&iwloc=00049bb574034ec480076" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Handyside World Map</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it. </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">If anyone out there knows of any other Handyside bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Thanks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Andy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><br /></span>Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-22275081093168255792015-04-28T12:23:00.001+01:002015-04-28T12:38:20.317+01:00Night and Morning vase, Restored in 2014. Swiss Gardens, Shuttleworth Collection, Bedfordshire, UKThe restoration team have done an excellent restoration on this vase, so good to see Handyside's work being looked after like this.<br />
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This is a <b>Night and Morning Vase</b> by Andrew Handyside, which is based on Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Night and Day plaques.<br />
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The Swiss Gardens have had a £2.8 million revamp thanks to the Heritage Lottery fund. There are 13 listed structures on the site and the Handyside vase is one of them.<br />
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The Britannia Foundry established a reputation with ornamental work, it was well known for producing elaborate vases. They had great success at the 1851 Great Exhibition.<br />
They also achieved a Gold Medal "Ornamental Fountains and Vases" at Birmingham in 1872, and at the 1871 Cordova Exhibition in Argentina.<br />
Handyside had their own dedicated catalog for fountains and urns which I have a copy of which is very useful in my research of Andrew Handyside work and identifying its products around the world.<br />
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For the 1862 International Exhibition in London they provided a cast iron fountain and several vases. One of these vases was the "Night and Morning" vase, this is the model that<br />
you can see wonderfully restored in the Swiss Gardens here.<br />
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This is Vase Design No. 23 on Page 60 of my 1879 publication "An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside"
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A photograph of the restored vase :<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/16426951475" title="Night and Morning vase by Andrew Handyside, Swiss Gardens, Shuttleworth Collection. by Andy savage, on Flickr"><img alt="Night and Morning vase by Andrew Handyside, Swiss Gardens, Shuttleworth Collection." height="349" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/16426951475_b1d88982e3.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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Here is this model of vase in my 1879 publication "An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside" It provides dimentions and good views of the amazing design :<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/16426953505" title=""Night and Morning" vase by Andrew Handyside. by Andy savage, on Flickr"><img alt=""Night and Morning" vase by Andrew Handyside." height="493" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7320/16426953505_52730e805c.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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Here is a page from the The Art Journal Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862 and it shows four items that Andrew Handyside exhibited at the show. Their "Night and Morning Vase" is in the top right of the page.<br />
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Here is a photograph of the very same vase before its restoration:<br />
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Here is another photograph of the vase in April 2011 before its restoration :<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Map Location:</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">View my </span><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=-33.965235,25.606036&spn=0.002639,0.004128&iwloc=00049bb574034ec480076" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Handyside World Map</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> to see the exact location of this vase on the world map. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">If anyone out there knows of any other vases around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Thanks</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Andy</span><br />
<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-14383227877373204392015-04-09T12:30:00.000+01:002015-05-19T05:25:40.213+01:00The grave of Andrew Handyside (1805-1887) and Alexander Buchanan (1829-1916) and other family members.I have finally located the grave of Andrew Handyside and Anastasia Handyside and other relations.<br />
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As you can see its a very basic grave indeed, I imagine the headstone has been placed down for "health and safety gone mad" reasons.<br />
This grave is located in Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery, Derby.<br />
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The grave of Andrew Handyside and wife Anastasia.<br />
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The inscription in the centre of the cross is MS but I think this is just a generic makers mark.<br />
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Andrew Handyside was the son of Hugh Handyside and Margaret Baird.<br />
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In the 1871 Census for Derby shows the people living at "The Cedars" as<br />
Andrew Handyside - Head of house - 65 years old - Civil Engineer - Born in Scotland.<br />
Anastasia Handyside - Wife - 48 years old - Born in Babanka, Poland. <br />
Anastasia Henley - Motherinlaw - 88 years old - Born in Russia, St Petersburg.<br />
Jane Ruddle - Servant Cook - 27 years old<br />
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Anastasia Henley was Anastasia Handyside's Mother (Andrew Handyside's Mother in law). She was born in St Petersburg on December 9th 1782 and died of Bronchitison at the age of 92 on February 17th 1875.<br />
Her husband was John Henleywho from St Petersburg born on Bebruary 7th 1767 and died on July 1st 1855.<br />
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In the 1881 Census for Derby shows the people living at "The Cedars" as<br />
Andrew Handyside - Head of house - 75 years old - Civil Engineer (Retired) Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.<br />
Anastasia Handyside - Wife - 58 years old - Born in Babanka, Ukraine, Poland.<br />
Eleanor Haverfield - Grand niece - 10 years old - Scholar - Born in Callander, Scotland<br />
Ann Webb - Servant - 29 years old - Cook - Born in Arley, Shropshire<br />
Emma Ault - Servant - 29 - Housemaid - Born in Derby, Derbyshire. <br />
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<b>Anastasia Handyside Death Certificate</b><br />
Registration District Kensington<br />
Sub-district Kensington North in the County of London<br />
When and where died: 16th Nov 1910, 50 St Marks Road, North Kensington<br />
Name and Surname: Anastasia Handyside<br />
Sex: Female<br />
Age: 89 years<br />
Occupation: Widow of Andrew Handyside, Civil Engineer<br />
Cause of Death: Syncope following shock the result of a fracture of the femur caused by a fall Accidental<br />
[Syncope – fainting, loss of consciousness from fall of blood pressure – Concise OED]<br />
Signature,description and residence of informant: Certificate received from C Luxinoore Drew [?] Coroner for London Inquest this day 19th Nov 1910<br />
When Registered: Twenty First November 1910<br />
<b>I would like to thank Peter Butt for the above information.</b><br />
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<b>Anastasia Henley Death certificate </b><br />
Registration District: Saint Peter, Derby.<br />
When and Where died: 17 February 1875, The Cedars, Ashbourne Road<br />
Name and Surname: Anastasia Henley<br />
Sex: Female<br />
Age: 92 Years<br />
Occupation: Widow of John Henley a Merchant<br />
Cause of Death: Gradual decay – Bronchitis, certified by HW Baker MRCS<br />
Signature, description and resident of information:<br />
Emily Buchanon, Daughter of dedeased, present at death, 8 Wilson Street, Derby<br />
When registered: 18 Feb 1875<br />
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<b>Andrew Handyside - Will</b><br />
Made in 1877<br />
Andrew left everything to his wife and sole executor Anastasia for her sole use.<br />
In the case of Anastasia dying before him then to his niece Louise for her sole use and as sole executor.<br />
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In this plot are....<br />
Andrew Handyside - Age 81 Interment date 13th June 1887<br />
Anastasia Handyside - Age 87 Interment date 21st November 1910<br />
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Andrew Handyside died on Thursday 9th June 1887 from bronchitis.<br />
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Andrew Handyside was seventeen years older than his wife, Anastasia's mother was also called Anastasia and was born in St Petersburg (now Leningrad) both became British subjects.<br />
According to the register, Andrew Handyside paid for this plot in advance !<br />
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While hunting for the gravestone of Andrew Handyside I found the plot for Alexander Buchanan. Alexander was Andrew Handyside's Nephew and also a manager at the Britannia Iron Works in Derby.<br />
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The gravestone details:<br />
Alexander Buchanan 1829-1916<br />
Emily Buchanan 1827-1912<br />
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This grave is located in Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery, Derby.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5461444757/" title="The grave of Alexander Buchanan (Nephew of Andrew Handyside) by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="The grave of Alexander Buchanan (Nephew of Andrew Handyside)" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5133/5461444757_2e36f3b939.jpg" height="453" width="500" /></a><br />
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<b>Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery, Derby</b><br />
This graveyard is rather large and very heavily populated with plots so it took several visits to locate it. Because the grave stone is on its face I had no choice but to identify it using adjacent plots.<br />
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-20463291956590608262015-01-28T12:24:00.002+00:002015-03-11T19:43:19.525+00:00Reading Town Hall, Berkshire, UK. Horseshoe gallery Ironwork made by Andrew Handyside in 1880.Reading Town Hall was officially opened on 31st May 1882, it was Grade II listed in 1976. Refurbishment started in 1986 and was completed in 2000.<br />
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Today this building is used as the Museum of Reading and has a large concert hall with conference rooms.The ironwork made by Handyside is located in the Main Hall. They made the Horseshoe shaped gallery in the hall. You can't really see the ironwork as its hidden but you will see in the technical design drawings below how important the ironwork is in this building.<br />
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<a href="http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o99t8z3ealrqz3hqzv6zy" target="_blank">Google streetview outside this building.</a><br />
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Here is a photograph taken in the hall viewed from directly under the gallery, as you can see the ironwork is enclosed in decorative wood.<br />
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Reading Town Hall is 98 foot long by 60 Foot wide. Three sides of the hall are furnished with a horseshoe shaped gallery projecting out by without any support columns!<br />
The gallery projects out by 10 foot down two sides and by 16 foot at the end, the whole structure stands 11 foot from the floor.<br />
It covers an area of 2140 square foot and weighs 80.892 tons.<br />
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The iron structure utilises a clever branch-and-root construction method, it was designed to be able to stand on its own but also cope when full of people.<br />
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Tests were performed at The Britannia Iron Works in Derby to ensure that it could cope with the stress, they loaded it with 50,000 bricks, weighing 9lbs each!<br />
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Max am Ende was the civil engineer for this job, He specialised in Ironwork structures.<br />
The ironwork was manufactured in Derby at the Britania Ironworks by Andrew Handyside & Co under the direction of Ewing Matheson.<br />
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Here are the technical design drawings for the gallery in Reading Town Hall. They show how the gallery balcony is constructed :<br />
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My Reference : Page 2-4 of The Engineer journal from July 1st 1881.<br />
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I would like to thank <b>Michael Thomas</b> of adp-architecture who was involved in the restoration of Reading Hall, this took 20 years and started in May 1981.<br />
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Michael says <span style="color: blue;">"I can tell you that I saw practically everything that was done in that hall and my recollection is that the steelwork was almost certainly installed as shown on your drawings. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This is what triggered my interest. I don’t know if you have any engineering knowledge, if so you would be surprised by the slenderness of the steels below the floor as shown in your figure 9. <br />The reason is simply that they sat on hefty brick cross-walls in the lower ground floor; this is in marked contrast with the uprights built into the hall walls. It was a clever solution and I have attached a diagrammatic cross-section which should help. In short the steelwork was continuous and consisted of:</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">· The beams under the concert hall floor sitting on brick walls. These went across the whole hall and thus reduced the bending moment hugely and acted as a tie.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">· There would have been huge rotation when these floor beams met the uprights, hence you see massive steelwork at lower left junction. And you will have noticed the very deep steels embedded in the 3’ thick walls.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">· Thus the structure was very rigid when it reached the point of cantilevering the balcony. The fact that the balcony is stepped also gives room for added stiffness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This is a Grade II Listed Building and there is little scope for alteration this part of the structure. Neither was there any need. The steel was in good condition too. However there was minimal ventilation and when full the hall would have been stifling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">When we came on the scene the balcony was out use as the fire escape arrangements were inadequate. We had to be quite cunning and introduce two new exits and now one would be hard pressed to distinguish new from old. Also we had to introduce some form of ducting for fresh air. <br /><br />In the event we put new ducts for blown air in the void within the balcony and intermittent outlets at the step risers. This was very challenging as it had to be blown almost noiselessly!<br /><br />My recollection is that some modifications were made to the steels in two larger voids to accommodate the ducts and give access for maintenance; there are also a few trap doors in the floor at the highest level for access only. Of course the steel is covered up now as it was never intended to be exposed.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br />My firm will be 50 years old this year and is running a blog featuring 50 projects highlighting its history. <br />They are quite short and here is the one for Reading Town Hall: <a href="http://www.adp-architecture.com/blog/40-countdown-to-50">http://www.adp-architecture.com/blog/40-countdown-to-50</a> <br /><br />You may find this interesting as there is a different view of the concert hall.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br />I have given you a pretty full reply and I think you can be certain that the steelwork was installed as Handyside’s drawings and has stood the test of time very well. <br />You may not know that there was a strong move to sell the site around 1974 after Local Government reorganisation and permit demolition for a new commercial development! <br />The whole complex was listed as late as 1976.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br />I hope you find all this of interest.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Best wishes,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Michael"</span><br />
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More information:<br />
<a href="http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank">Reading Museum (formally Reading Town Hall)</a><br />
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Hope you enjoyed this new Andrew Handyside discovery.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Andy<br />
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-2339529664616230512015-01-27T18:10:00.001+00:002015-01-27T18:34:58.572+00:00Railway Station Roof at La Plata Station in Buenos Aires, South America built by Andrew Handyside in 1906.The roof of La Plata Railway Station (Estación del Ferrocarril Roca) in Buenos Aires, South America was built at the Britannia Iron Works in Derby in 1906.<br />
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The roof has a span of 117 foot and its 500 foot long and weighs 870 tons.<br />
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There are some great photographs by Carlos Amato showing the iron work :<br />
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Here is an advert from The Engineering Journal in 1909 featuring this roof :<br />
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You can see this Railway Station in these Google Street View :<br />
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<a href="http://www.instantstreetview.com/11p180z2bbn9hz27hzs6z3s" target="_blank">Estación del Ferrocarril Roca.</a>.<br />
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Video of La Plata Railway Station, Buenos Aires.<br />
I even managed to find this video of the railway station in which you can see the Handyside Iron work. You can see this from about 0:34 in :<br />
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Hope you enjoyed this new find of Andrew Handyside's work.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Andy<br />
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-91991843836905941382015-01-19T12:44:00.001+00:002015-01-21T05:44:00.691+00:00Drinking Fountain in Alexandra Park, Whalley Range, Manchester, UK Made Andrew Handyside in 1868. Now Restored.<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">Alexandra Park is a 60-acre park in the Moss Side/Whalley Range districts of Manchester, England. It was designed by Alexander Hennell, opened in 1868. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">In 2012 a two year £5.5m restoration project to return the park to its original Victorian glory started. The restored park reopened in August 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Part of the restoration included a Drinking fountain made by Andrew Handyside of Derby. I'm so happy to see this fountain restored, it looked in pretty bad shape but thanks to the hard work of </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">Hargreaves Foundry from Halifax its now looking very good. Andrew Handyside would be proud to see his fountain looking like this 146 years after it was installed in this park.</span></span><br />
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This is Fountain Design No. 48 on Page 40 of my 1879 publication "An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside".<br />
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Here are some photographs showing the poor state the drinking fountain was in prior to restoration :<br />
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I found this rather interesting old photograph of the drinking fountain from 1954. These people are from The Band of Hope, part of the Temperance Movement in Manchester. Click to view a large version.<br />
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Useful links :<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlexParkMCR">Friends of Alexandra Park Facebook page</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hargreavesfoundry.co.uk/foundry/architectural_cast_iron/architectural_case_studies/casestudyview/30" target="_blank">Blog entry by Hargreaves Foundry about their restoration of the fountain</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">Andrew Handyside exported many decorative fountains around the world during the Victorian era.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">The Britannia Foundry's work was well known for its fine quality so these fountains can be found all over the globe but where exactly they are located is difficult to find out.</span></span><br />
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Thanks<br />
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-61930547283828759692015-01-06T20:29:00.003+00:002015-01-06T20:33:59.110+00:00Fountain in Rochdale Memorial Gardens made by Andrew Handyside. Now restored !This restored fountain is located at the North end of Rochdale Memorial Gardens.<br />
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I was told about this restoration back in 2011 by Bob Bevan a Rochdale Township Greenspace Ranger. I supplied them information to try and help with the restoration and I'm happy to say this fountain is now up and running again.<br />
I made a special trip from Derby to see this fountain and meet up with Bob, he gave me an amazing tour of the local sites and heritage which was very interesting.<br />
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In my video you will see just below the large bowl of the fountain are busts of Peel, Nelson, Watt, Wellington, Stephenson, Scott, Shakespeare and Milton.<br />
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This particular design of fountain is listed as Design Number 27 on Page 70 of the 1879 publication "An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside".<br />
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My video of the restored fountain in Rochdale Memorial Gardens.<br />
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I have also created three 360 degree VR photographs of this fountain so you can have a look around the Memorial Gardens:<br />
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<a href="http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4810_4816.htm">http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4810_4816.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4820_4826.htm">http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4820_4826.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4803_4809.htm">http://www.absolutelyandy.com/demo/360s/rochdale/4803_4809.htm</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/salford_ian/2359158196" title="Rochdale Memorial Gardens by Ian Roberts, on Flickr"><img alt="Rochdale Memorial Gardens" height="375" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3174/2359158196_d4edac1007.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-47147975172848633982013-04-04T20:55:00.000+01:002019-06-21T17:58:37.994+01:00Hope Railway Station Footbridge made by Andrew Handyside in 1894. Now restored.This footbridge is located in Hope, Derbyshire, UK.<br />
Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of
bridges of many different sizes around the world. Here is a recent find thanks to Andrew Helsby who was carrying out the restoration on this footbridge and got in touch.<br /><br />Update : June 2019 : <a href="https://youtu.be/FqZ1aW88aCc" target="_blank">Click here to see my video tour of this bridge</a>.<br />
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Andrew Helsby who did the restoration said "We have just refurbished a footbridge at Hope station in Derbyshire. We removed all the old paint and decking and repainted it to original colours ( I think). There are a couple of plaques on each end of the bridge which we picked out in contrasting colours. The name on the plaque was A.Handyside & Co Derby and London 1894. I did a search and came across your very informative web site."<br />
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"We did the restoration for a main client working for Network Rail. They lifted the bridge out complete with the four staircases leaving only the two piers on site. We did an initial blast to remove 90% of the original paint then they inspected the steel work and replaced as necessary. We then reblasted and painted it to a Network Rail specification. The finished colours were Holly Green (14 C 39 ) main steel work & Antique Cream ( 10 B 15 ) the lattice work. The wooden deck was removed and a modern GRP equivalent installed. The bridge was lifted back and re-opened Saturday 19th January 2013."<br />
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Here is one of his photographs of the nicely restored Handyside badges that adorn this footbridge in Hope:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/8619227405/" title="Restored footbridge at Hope railway station by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Restored footbridge at Hope railway station" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8401/8619227405_47c2d4162e_z.jpg" height="480" width="640"></a>
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The restored walking surface on this Handyside footbridge:<br />
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Here is a Google Streetview of the Hope Railway Station Footbridge (before restoration):<br />
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This footbridge is similar to the one at <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/whatstandwell-railway-station.html">Whatstandwell, Derbyshire</a>.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=53.345972,-1.728442&spn=0.002703,0.008256&iwloc=0004d381a1e357119b3bb">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this footbridge on my world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other footbridges at railway stations
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<br />Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-16923654757730146502012-03-01T19:38:00.005+00:002012-03-01T20:50:32.198+00:00Old Drinking fountain Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, UK built by Andrew Handyside in the 1880sAndrew Handyside who made <b>Friar Gate bridge</b> in Derby also made lots of fountains. These fountains were made right here in Derby at the former Britannia Ironworks on Duke Street.<br />
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The Britannia Foundry's work was well known throughout the Victorian Era for its fine quality, so these fountains can be found all over the globe but where exactly they are located is difficult to find out. But thankfully because of my extensive research here, people are beginning to contact me with details of Handyside work. I am then able to add it to my Handyside world map and this blog, where I can go into great details about every item I find including historical information, Photographs from Flickr, Videos from Youtube, Exact map locations, Google Streetviews etc.<br />
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Here is one that I found last year but was waiting for someone to take some better photographs of it for me, thankfully Alwyn Ladell from Bournemouth has now taken some great shots of it which I can now share.<br />
This Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside is located on the beach at Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK.<br />
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This particular design of drinking fountain is listed as <b>Design Number 24</b> on Page 42 of the 1879 publication "<b>An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside</b>".<br />
The price for this fountain is listed in April 1880 as between £18 0s 0d and £20 5s 0d depending what finish was applied (no finish, bronze/marble paint etc).<br />
According to the drawing its 6 foot 7 inches from the base to the bottom of the lamp support and includes a animal drinking trough in the base. Looking at the photographs of this fountain it does still have those on place unlike the Curling Drinking fountain in <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/2011/06/curling-drinking-fountain-marine-parade.html" target="_blank">Eastbourne</a>. <br />
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<b>Its a real shame that this Victorian drinking fountain has been allowed to get into this sorry state.</b><br />
<b>This is probably around 140 years old and has been left to rot. I'm very surprised that this has been allowed to happen, perhaps the council don't realise what they have here! Is it even listed? </b><br />
<b>Perhaps if you live in this area you should let someone who cares know about this neglected fountain.</b><br />
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This fountain is missing the water spout, the two cup holders and the lamp on the top. It DOES however still retain the Handyside plaque which the Eastbourne fountain does not. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Photographs of this old drinking fountain.</span><br />
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Front view of the drinking fountain showing the two intertwined dolphins on the top, Looks like the lamppost has rotted away.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/6892770743/" title="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset by Alwyn Ladell, on Flickr"><img alt="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6892770743_7cc7d883b2_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
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Angled view of the fountain, at this angle you can see one of the animal drinking troughs in the base.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/6892777531/" title="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset by Alwyn Ladell, on Flickr"><img alt="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6892777531_78eb0a302a_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
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The "A. Handyside & Co Ld" plaque located at the top of the fountain just below the dolphins.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/6892774395/" title="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset by Alwyn Ladell, on Flickr"><img alt="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset" height="426" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6892774395_8d3ab90a64_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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The Handyside logo located on the ??????? of the fountain.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/6892780147/" title="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset by Alwyn Ladell, on Flickr"><img alt="Disused Drinking Fountain by Andrew Handyside, Alum Chine, Westbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset" height="426" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6892780147_df24a4118f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Photograph of the fountain from 2009 by Martin R :<br />
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A Postcard from 1926 showing the fountain, probably in working at this time :<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/5350154600/" title="Alum Chine estuary, Westbourne, Bournemouth - eastern cliffs and steps by Alwyn Ladell, on Flickr"><img alt="Alum Chine estuary, Westbourne, Bournemouth - eastern cliffs and steps" height="405" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5249/5350154600_bb1d2a8d71_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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I found another photograph of this <a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1501474" target="_blank">fountain on Geograph</a>.<br />
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This exact same model of drinking fountain in great condition can be found in Eastbourne, see my blog post on this other fountain here - <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/2011/06/curling-drinking-fountain-marine-parade.html" target="_blank">Eastbourne fountain</a>.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=50.901301,-0.491638&spn=1.460199,4.22699&iwloc=00048e6c0fbf2f86629de">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this fountain on my world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other Fountains around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks <br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-85705425110443766222012-02-29T07:00:00.003+00:002012-03-01T19:10:18.372+00:00Steel Building and Windows of former Rolls-Royce Motor Works on Nightingale Road, Derby built by Handyside in 1907. (now Demolished)NOTE : This no longer exists! The entire factory site apart from the facade was demolished and cleared in 2011.<br />
The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also manufactured steel structures for buildings around the world. Here in my dedicated blog to this company I am detailing every item I can find manufactured by them.<br />
The steel fabricated building and Windows of former Rolls-Royce Motor Works on Nightingale Road, Derby built by Andrew Handyside in 1907.<br />
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This steel fabrication project was one of the last commissions by Andrew Handyside before the untimely collapse of the company.<br />
In 1907 Royce himself wrote to Derby Solicitor C.R.B. Eddowes...<br />
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"<i style="color: #351c75;">Mr Royce and Mr johnson are of the opinion that if the work of erecting the buildings is entrusted to such a firm as Messrs Handyside of Derby it would be quite unnecessary to employ an architect to prepare drawings or to supervise the erection of the buildings as Messrs Handyside are engaged and have for some years been engaged in erecting buildings of a similar nature and are thoroughly competent and trustworthy firm</i>"<br />
(Nixon 1969, page 171)<br />
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As a side note - The Derby Solicitors used by RR back then are still going today <a href="http://www.ewlaw.co.uk/">www.ewlaw.co.uk</a> !<br />
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This particular project was delevered to this site from Britannia Iron Works using horse and cart! well it was a local delivery !<br />
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Below are some photographs of the Rolls-Royce Motor Works on Nightingale Road, Derby, Derbyshire, UK. The original factory which opened (officially) on 9th July 1908 consisted of what became known as Number 1 shop. In those days RR only made cars. Aero engines were to come later.<br />
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Andrew Handyside fabricated the steel structure and also the windows for the RR Motorworks here on Nightingale Road.<br />
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Photograph showing the facade of the RR building on Nightingale Road.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriscar/6336806563/" title="RR Frontage01 HDR by Carrington Imagery, on Flickr"><img alt="RR Frontage01 HDR" height="325" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6223/6336806563_60b1bd8db2.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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These Photographs courtesy of Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust.<br />
A view inside the building showing the structure of the building by Handyside.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6326964718/" title="Inside Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Inside Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910" height="369" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6057/6326964718_f8ba117609.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Another view inside the building showing the structure of the building by Handyside.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6326212699/" title="Inside Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Inside Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910" height="364" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6035/6326212699_ea3306e15c.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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The aerial view photo doesn’t show the commercial block which stood between the workshop & Nightingale Road. The commercial block was built in 1912 so the photos are of an era between 1908 when the factory opened and 1912 when the commercial block was built.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6326965254/" title="Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rolls-Royce Motor Works Derby 1910" height="257" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6235/6326965254_30b5c17a55.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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As you can see in the view from above the site was massive (click on "Sat"):<br />
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<small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Nightingale+Road,+Derby&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nightingale+Rd,+DE24+8BG,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=h&ll=52.898483,-1.462094&spn=0.002265,0.00456&z=17&source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small><br />
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<b>Google Streetview:</b><br />
The Google streetview car has captured this location well and you can see the facade of the building. See it <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Nightingale+Road,+Derby&hl=en&ll=52.898257,-1.460152&spn=0.005456,0.016512&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.981746,67.631836&hnear=Nightingale+Rd,+Derby+DE24+8,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.898633,-1.459802&panoid=kY7jYOd0tkApUU_4Di_4Tw&cbp=12,257.23,,0,-9.65" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=52.89961,-1.458242&spn=0.010911,0.033023&iwloc=00048f9ae603a16fbff75">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any items around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-28291877639675651622012-02-25T07:00:00.003+00:002012-02-29T05:14:51.960+00:00Chapelfield Road and Union Street viaducts for Manchester Piccadilly railway line built by Andrew Handyside around 1840.The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of other bridges of many different sizes around the world. Here in my dedicated blog to this company I am detailing every item I can find manufactured by them.<br />
In Manchester there are many viaducts that cross roads leading into Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station. Some of these viaducts have the plaque "<b>A. HANDYSIDE & Co Ld Derby & London</b>".<br />
Thanks to Google Streetview its possible to wander around these viaducts to inspect them for Handyside plaques.<br />
I have managed to find two that still have the plaques. These are over Chapelfield Road and Union Street. I dare say some of the other viaducts into this station may well have been made by Handyside but the badges have fallen off.<br />
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Manchester Piccadilly (Manchester London Road until 1960) is the principal railway station in Manchester,<br />
The station opened on 8 May 1842 as Store Street station and as Bank Top station, The station was then renamed London Road station in 1847, London Road station. It was then renamed yet again to Manchester Piccadilly when it reopened after reconstruction on 12 September 1960.<br />
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Handyside plaque on the viaduct carrying the railway lines into Manchester over Chapelfield Road.<br />
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Chapelfield Road Under the viaduct leading to Piccadilly Station <br />
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<b>Google Streetview:</b><br />
The Google streetview car has captured this location well and you can clearly see the Andrew Handyside plaque on the ironwork. See it <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Chapelfield+Road,+Manchester&hl=en&ll=53.47475,-2.220724&spn=0.000591,0.004128&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.27781,67.631836&oq=Chapelfield+Road,+man&hnear=Chapelfield+Rd,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.474749,-2.220724&panoid=NmD2H8ov0phlFazTRL8Nsg&cbp=12,210.86,,0,-16.04" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
Also the plaque on Union Street viaduct too <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Chapelfield+Road,+Manchester&hl=en&ll=53.474373,-2.219987&spn=0.000591,0.004128&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.27781,67.631836&oq=Chapelfield+Road,+man&hnear=Chapelfield+Rd,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.474273,-2.219949&panoid=SkQXUog_ylX2lfuA1QjcLQ&cbp=12,213.19,,1,-23.22" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=53.47458,-2.221706&spn=0.001346,0.004128&iwloc=00048e334df58da7584e9">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location,photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0Manchester, UK53.474602553480693 -2.221854928375250953.402283553480693 -2.2983594283752509 53.546921553480693 -2.1453504283752509tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-9909767680508257972012-01-25T22:06:00.000+00:002012-01-25T22:06:18.487+00:00Fountain in Pearson Conservatory, St. Georges Park, South Africa, Made By Andrew Handyside about 1882.Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge also made lots of decorative fountains. These fountains were made right here in Derby at the Duke Street Foundry "Britannia Iron Works". Andrew Handyside exported many decorative fountains around the world during the Victorian era. The Britannia Foundry's work was well known for its fine quality so these fountains can be found all over the globe but where exactly they are located is difficult to find out.<br />
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Here is one I found last year but decided now was a good time to post about it due to the fact that I've just seen it in the background of a TV Advert !!! <br />
This Handyside fountain is located inside the Pearson Conservatory, St. Georges Park, South Africa. It was made in Derby around 1882.<br />
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This particular design of fountain is listed as Design Number 15 on Page 30 of the 1879 publication "<b>An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside</b>". Its the same design as the one at <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/2011/05/restored-andrew-handyside-fountain-at.html">Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, Australia</a>. and the one at <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/2011/07/sarmiento-school-fountain-in-san-miguel.html">Sarmiento School Fountain in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, South America</a>.<br />
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Photograph of the Handyside fountain :<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stgeorgespark.nmmu.ac.za/images/thepark/Park23a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.stgeorgespark.nmmu.ac.za/images/thepark/Park23a.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><br />
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The TV Advert for Truvia sweetener that features this fountain.<br />
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The advert was filmed in St. Georges Park, South Africa, the advert is set in a greenhouse originally brought from Scotland in 1882. Filled with hundreds of locally grown Stevia plants, the scene brought beauty and nature together in perfect syngery. In the advert Ebony Buckle, a classically trained singer takes centre stage as she sings ‘Truvia® Scrumptious’ to the tune of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s iconic ‘Truly Scrumptious’. <br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=-33.965235,25.606036&spn=0.002639,0.004128&iwloc=00049bb574034ec480076">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this fountain on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it. <br />
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<b>Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other Fountains around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-92101642914981563912012-01-06T05:45:00.004+00:002022-10-23T14:59:04.838+01:00Former New Brighton Tower, Wallasey, Merseyside, UK Built by Andrew Handyside in 1896 (now Demolished).NOTE : This no longer exists! It was completely demolished in 1919.<br />
<br />Update : October 2022, Darren of the YouTube channel AdventureMe has made a really interesting and details video about this wonderful structure, highly recommend you watch it :<div><a href="https://youtu.be/Z27vSyceY4Y">https://youtu.be/Z27vSyceY4Y</a></div><div><br />
You may have seen this on Episode 7 of the BBC2 TV Series "Britain's First Photo Album - Liverpool to Blackpool" shown on Tuesday 20th March 2012.<br />
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Did you know that Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made the Structural steelwork and cast-ironwork for many buildings around the world and they were made right here in Derby at the Britannia Ironworks. <br />
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The New Brighton Tower was inspired by the Eiffel Tower (Paris, 1889) and built as the centre of a popular amusement park and pleasure garden. Located near Liverpool in Wallasey, Merseyside.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">At the time, this was the highest structure in England !</b><br />
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It was begun in 1896, finished about 1900 at a cost of £120,000. The architects were Maxwell and Turk of Manchester<br />
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According to my 1904 guide published by Andrew Handyside the tower was 574 Foot high (From the ground to the top of the Cooper Ball on the flag-staff) and the base was 143 foot wide.<br />
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The weight of Steel used in the Tower is 1,760 Tons<br />
The weight of Steel in the buildings surrounding the tower is 650 Tons.<br />
Handyside designed it with an octagonal cross-sectional design unlike the simple square plan used on Blackpool Tower (518 feet, built 1894).<br />
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In the building which surrounded the base of the tower was a ballroom and other popular assembly spaces.<br />
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The tower had four lifts to take sightseers to the top of the structure at a cost of 6d. <br />
From there you could see for miles around including the Isle of Man, part of the Lake District and the Welsh Mountains. The Tower attracted a half a million people in its opening year.<br />
During the first world war the steel structure was neglected and became rusty through lack of maintenance and the cost of renovating was more than the owner could afford.<br />
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The top portion of the structure commenced to be dismantled on 7th May 1919 and was completed by June 1921 (see the photographs below)<br />
The brick portion comprising of the Ballroom and Theatre remained, together with the turrets. During the Second World War the basement was used as a communal air-raid shelter.<br />
The remaining parts of the surrounding buildings were destroyed by fire in 1969, the entire area was redeveloped as River View Park. Nothing remains of this site.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Photographs of this Victorian Tower built by Andrew Handyside.</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/96324352/" title="new brighton tower - tallest building in england in 1897 by noctorum, on Flickr"><img alt="new brighton tower - tallest building in england in 1897" height="640" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/40/96324352_210ebe2a01_z.jpg" width="408" /></a><br />
Photograph by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/">Noctorum</a>.<br />
<br />Photograph by Andrew Handyside at the time of construction of the lower section of the tower from 1897 :<br /><br />
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1912 Souvenir Guide for the New Brighton Tower and Amusement Park.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/4652374808/" title="New Brighton Tower Guide page 1 by noctorum, on Flickr"><img alt="New Brighton Tower Guide page 1" height="598" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4040/4652374808_e591fc65dd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
Photograph by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/">Noctorum</a>.<br />
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New Brighton Tower Guide Cover.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/4651755155/" title="New Brighton Tower Guide by noctorum, on Flickr"><img alt="New Brighton Tower Guide" height="1024" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4071/4651755155_419b2cef84_b.jpg" width="547" /></a><br />
Photograph by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/">Noctorum</a>.<br />
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Photograph showing the tower during its demolition 1919-1921.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57331414@N00/399876230/" title="New Brighton Tower Wallasey, dismantled between 1919-1921-03 by Les Ward, on Flickr"><img alt="New Brighton Tower Wallasey, dismantled between 1919-1921-03" height="640" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/133/399876230_c42a6fed40_z.jpg" width="423" /></a><br />
Photograph by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57331414@N00/">Les Ward</a>.<br />
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<b>A video "Wallasey - New Brighton Tower's Rise & Fall"</b><br />
From 1897 to 1969, when the Tower met its final demise. This short pictoral history video captures what has gone and in many ways been forgotten.<br />
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Video by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/parapiranha">Parapiranha</a>.<br />
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Learn more about New Brighton Tower here :<br />
<a href="http://www.liberator31.co.uk/wallasey/towergrounds/index.html">http://www.liberator31.co.uk/wallasey/towergrounds/index.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">My Reference : </span><br />
Page 38 of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steel & Iron Structures</span> Made and erected by Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd of Derby and London. Published 1904. <br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4331651,-3.0472097,3220m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!6m1!1s1OAACWtSS9PyrJqZ5Ebpy1yb527nkRFk7?hl=en&authuser=0">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the original exact location of this tower on my world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it. <br />
<br />
<b>Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other items around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks <br />
Andy</div>Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com2Wallasey, Merseyside, UK53.426521 -3.066215000000056553.4062275 -3.1045500000000565 53.4468145 -3.0278800000000565tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-19750975197576638442012-01-01T08:30:00.011+00:002012-01-06T05:45:56.823+00:00Drinking fountain in St Pancras Old Church Gardens built by Andrew Handyside in 1877.Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge also made lots of decorative fountains. These fountains were made right here in Derby at the Duke Street Foundry "Britannia Iron Works".<br />
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Andrew Handyside exported many decorative fountains around the world during the Victorian era.<br />
The Britannia Foundry's work was well known for its fine quality so these fountains can be found all over the globe but where exactly they are located is difficult to find out.<br />
Thankfully because of my research here people are beginning to contact me with details of Handyside work, I am then able to add it to my world map. It really helps my research being able to use Flickr to see these items for myself and share these finds with the world.<br />
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This drinking fountain is located in the gardens of St Pancras Old Church, London. <br />
Dated 1877 on plaque. Manufactured by Andrew Handyside and Co of Derby for William Thornton, a <br />
senior Church Warden who presented it to the church.<br />
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This particular design of fountain is listed as Design Number 48 on Page 40 of the 1879 publication "<b>An Illustrated book of Designs for Fountains and Vases, costing from £1 to £1200 manufactured by Andrew Handyside</b>".<br />
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There is another of these fountains and in <u>much better condition</u> in Australia. <br />
See my post : <a href="http://friargatebridge.blogspot.com/2011/04/belcher-drinking-fountain-in-geelong.html">Belcher Drinking Fountain in Geelong, Victoria, Australia</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photographs of this fountain.<br />
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View of the fountain in the Church gardens.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6146925840/" title="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London" height="640" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6146925840_06a8b6b8e1_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
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View of the top of the fountain.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6146926124/" title="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6210/6146926124_6321d534ec.jpg" width="447" /></a><br />
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The makers badge on the base of the fountain.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6146925574/" title="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London" height="338" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6061/6146925574_8f3a2f64db.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Showing the location of the fountain within the church gardens<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6146926572/" title="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Handyside drinking fountain at St Pancras Old Church, London" height="375" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6166/6146926572_42775383f2.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=St+Pancras+Old+Church&hl=en&ll=51.534938,-0.131299&spn=0.005626,0.016512&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.981746,67.631836&vpsrc=6&hq=St+Pancras+Old+Church&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.534874,-0.131141&panoid=B9KBP9hpj9qZBmmess-LUw&cbp=12,37.24,,2,1.2">Google Streetview of this fountain</a>.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=51.535939,-0.129926&spn=0.005626,0.016512&iwloc=00048e32fef6b45b50f0c">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this fountain on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
<br />
<b>Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other Fountains around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com1Camden Town, Greater London, UK51.535316249981271 -0.1305170055877624751.484329249981272 -0.19075550558776247 51.58630324998127 -0.070278505587762469tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-10176820218015068572011-11-04T06:02:00.001+00:002013-06-12T06:14:55.457+01:00Footbridge at King's Cross Railway Station, London was made by Andrew Handyside in 1892.The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of other bridges of many different sizes around the world such as this world famous footbridge which up until December 2008 was located in King's Cross Railway Station, London, UK.<br />
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As well as King's Cross footbridge, this bridge has many other names such as The Harry Potter Bridge, Handyside bridge.<br />
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Update for June 2013 : This bridge is now open at Ropely, Hampshire. See my video <a href="http://youtu.be/smXTKy8W2mU">here</a>. <br />
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King's Cross Footbridge is a Grade I listed structure built in Derby in 1892 by Andrew Handyside and installed at Kings Cross in 1893.<br />
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In 2008, as part of a major redevelopment of Kings Cross, the footbridge had to be dismantled and removed. English Heritage and the London Borough of Camden, as Planning Authority, stipulated that Network Rail should find a suitable alternative use for the footbridge. This alternative use has now been found at Mid-Hants Railway, Watercress Line, Alresford, Hampshire.<br />
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<a href="http://www.watercressline.co.uk/">www.watercressline.co.uk</a><br />
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The Handyside footbridge used to run across the main station train shed, between platform 1 on the E side and platform 8 on the W side. This structure, approximately 66m long, and is made of composite lattice girders with diagonal straps and it is supported by cast iron columns with octagonal bases on all platforms except on platforms 7-6. Although it only linked platforms 1 and 8, the presence of gates within the south parapet in line with the intermediate platforms suggest staircases were once present to allow access to these.<br />
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A clock was situated directly over platform 8, with two large clock faces, to N and S, fixed above the faces of the bridge, driven via a rod by a clock mechanism housed inside the W range of buildings nearby. The West side of the footbridge was constructed in 1892 and has makers plates "A. Handyside & Co. of Derby and London" The East half of the bridge looks like an addition, or else a replacement. Perhaps the western half, if built first,was to connect only departure platforms, which the clock would also have served, when trains arrived at and departed from different platforms in the two halves of the station.<br />
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<b>A new hope for the Handyside footbridge.</b><br />
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Currently (Nov 2011) the bridge is being shot blasted and will be installed at a heritage railway site in Mid-Hants. The plans for the bridge are based on 1/2 the bridge crossing the Mid Hants Railway’s main line, yard shunt road and two tracks into a new workshop i.e. 4 in total, with the second half creating a walkway from the end of the first bit to the entrance to viewing galleries in the workshop where we will place most of the interpretation materials. It could well be 6 months before this is complete.<br />
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I would like to thank David Snow and Elissa May at Mid Hants Railway watercressline for their help and information.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone :</span><br />
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On this footbridge is where Hagrid was filmed giving Harry his first Hogwarts Express ticket in the well known 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.<br />
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For many years the trellis lattice work was covered along the inside of the bridge by fiberglass panels, these were removed for the film. Fans of Harry Potter used to visit this bridge so they could stand where Harry was when he was given his special ticket. See my images lower down of this bridge as seen in the Harry Potter film.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photographs</b></span><br />
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Long Panoramic photograph of the entire King's Cross footbridge when it was still in location.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/88378878/" title="Kings Cross, London by jovike, on Flickr"><img alt="Kings Cross, London" height="197" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/88378878_b8ab1193e8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/89202875/" title="Kings Cross Section by jovike, on Flickr"><img alt="Kings Cross Section" height="375" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/89202875_ec8a9c4014.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesather/1574788430/" title="Kings Cross Station (Harry Potter) by lesather, on Flickr"><img alt="Kings Cross Station (Harry Potter)" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/1574788430_60033bb29a.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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"A. Handyside" makers plaque on the stairs in Kings Cross Station.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceaman/259120681/" title="for niznoz by moufle, on Flickr"><img alt="for niznoz" height="640" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/259120681_efcd569e83_z.jpg" width="474" /></a><br />
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A Handyside badge on one of the footbridge supports.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6310002697/" title="Handyside badge on King's Cross footbridge support by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Handyside badge on King's Cross footbridge support" height="479" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6310002697_e9aa63a9ea_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Video</b></span><br />
A time-lapse video showing the removal of this footbridge in 2008<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/2813129?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/2813129">King's Cross bridge removal time-lapse</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user864861">NCE Magazine</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Handyside bridge as seen in the Harry Potter film:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6307863771/" title="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 1 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 1" height="276" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6307863771_a37023b436_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6308384832/" title="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 2 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 2" height="276" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6308384832_83c8c987f6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6307863865/" title="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 3 by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="King's Cross Footbridge Harry Potter 3" height="276" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6099/6307863865_10a62cb48d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Photographs of the bridge in its new location:<br />
Awaiting restoration before installation at the Watercress line.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6310523428/" title="view at Eastleigh showing sections of balustrade by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="view at Eastleigh showing sections of balustrade" height="425" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6310523428_e067834878_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://g.co/maps/9mqv8">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map.<br />
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My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
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If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-91803761180934176542011-11-01T12:40:00.000+00:002011-11-01T12:40:49.580+00:00Shoe Lane road bridge, Holborn Viaduct, London Built by Andrew Handyside in 1869.The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of other bridges of many different sizes around the world.<br />
On a recent trip to London while investigating some other work by Andrew Handyside I found a bridge with some lions heads on it and wondered if it was by Andrew Handyside so had a real good look around and managed to find a makers badge on one of the panels. It reads "A. Handyside & Co Britannia Foundry Derby". This bridge is located on Holborn Viaduct and goes over Shoe Lane.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Photographs of this bridge.</span><br />
A vew of the decorative panels on the top of this bridge as seen from the A40.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298079051/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="468" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6298079051_433c8e3475_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Another view of the decorative panels showing the 3D lions heads.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298079377/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="375" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6114/6298079377_5bab805107.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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One of the decorative cast iton Lions Heads<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298610156/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="375" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/6298610156_123f83b3fd.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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A view underneath from Shoe Lane<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298609250/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="422" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6298609250_91e37c6f95_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Another view showing the construction of the bridge from underneath<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298079757/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="640" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6298079757_702e36cb89_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
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The decorative cast iron scrolls<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298609384/" title="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Shoe Lane bridge, London built by Andrew Handyside" height="410" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6216/6298609384_9085dfdbae.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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The makers badge "A. Handyside & Co Britannia Foundry Derby" <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6298609000/" title="Andrew Handyside badge on Shoe Lane bridge London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Andrew Handyside badge on Shoe Lane bridge London" height="242" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6095/6298609000_a5b8face81.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://g.co/maps/fcdyd">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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Google Streetview has captured this bridge <a href="http://g.co/maps/5q3gw">HERE</a>.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-81257099562609394122011-10-30T16:29:00.000+00:002011-10-30T16:29:47.632+00:00Rossmore Road bridge near Marylebone Railway Station, London built by Andrew Handyside in 1897.The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of other bridges of many different sizes around the world.<br />
On a recent trip to London I have found another bridge made by this local firm. This road bridge is located next to Marylebone Railway Station, it carries Rossmore Road over the 7 sets of tracks that terminate at Marylebone Railway Station. This is where you can then get on the Underground as Marylebone tube station is also located here.<br />
Marylebone Station opened on 15 March 1899 and was originally the London terminus of the ill-fated Great Central Main Line, it now serves as the terminus of the Chiltern Main Line route.<br />
All of the support stanchions that are located under Rossmore Road are embellished with "Andrew Handyside & Co Ltd 1897 Derby & London" as you can see in my photographs below.<br />
Marylebone Station its self has recently been restored, I'm not sure if the station ironwork was built by Handyside as I could not see any makers marks on the ironwork but I did find "George Smith & Co Glasgow & Clippens Ltd" on the supports of a canopy outside the station.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Photographs of this bridge.</span><br />
A view of Rossmore Road bridge as viewed from Marylebone Railway Station.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6286523213/" title="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside. by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside." height="314" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6286523213_002c2a7472_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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A view from the centre platform showing 10 bridge stanchions.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6287041540/" title="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside. by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside." height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6287041540_229f1bdea4.jpg" width="458" /></a><br />
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A view showing the construction of the road bridge from underneath.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6287042010/" title="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside. by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside." height="416" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6287042010_3263d5dd0d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Decorative Handyside ironwork.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6287042276/" title="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside. by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside." height="399" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6287042276_8190feb2c7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Andrew Handyside makers badge on the bridge stanchions: <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6287040896/" title="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside. by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Rossmore Road bridge build by Andrew Handyside." height="422" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6212/6287040896_1a59873404_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=51.525497,-0.164049&spn=0.002523,0.004823">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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Google Streetview has captured this bridge <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=rossmore+road+london&hl=en&ll=51.524993,-0.163894&spn=0.001268,0.002411&hnear=Rossmore+Rd,+London+NW1,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&sqi=2&t=h&z=19&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=51.525164,-0.164037&panoid=3g815ggkKm-i-nwRwQXPCw&cbp=12,141.78,,0,11.71">HERE</a>.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Andy Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-45844019505631248892011-10-06T06:52:00.000+01:002011-10-06T06:52:00.263+01:00Derby Castings Limited GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby made in 1933.Did you know that Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made thousands of iconic Pillar boxes for the UK and Ireland? I doubt many people are aware of this fact that they were made right here in Derby at the Britannia Ironworks on Duke Street, Derby.<br />
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Handyside had the Post Office Contract to make pillar boxes from 1878 to 1933 (1931-1933 known as Derby Castings). So its highly likely that at some point in your life a letter will have been posted via a Handyside box.<br />
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Here is one such example of a Wall Box that was made at the Britannia Ironworks in 1933. This one is still in constant use to this day. Its located in the wall outside a shop on Westrn Road, Mickleover, Derby, Derbyshire, UK. The GR is the Royal cipher for King George V.<br />
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Manufacture of cast-iron wall boxes in the UK for postal use finished in 1980.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photographs</b></span><br />
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Photograph showing the location of the Wall Box outside the shop on Western Road<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6136079693/" title="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby" height="391" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6177/6136079693_e64b3b2902.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Photograph showing the complete wall box.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6136625462/" title="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby" height="640" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6154/6136625462_757fe4fe0b_z.jpg" width="536" /></a><br />
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Photograph showing the Royal Cipher and makers badge "Derby Castings Limited, Derby"<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6136626100/" title="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box on Western Road, Mickleover, Derby" height="480" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6178/6136626100_099a60e721_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://g.co/maps/47d2g">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this Wall Box on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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<a href="http://g.co/maps/74564">Google Streetview</a> of this wall box.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other Pillar Boxes around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-16995890082388407992011-09-24T07:10:00.000+01:002011-09-24T07:10:00.084+01:00My world map showing all the locations of items made by Andrew Handyside & Company of Derby and London.I started this mapping project about a year ago with the odd item I knew about but over the months I kept finding more and more items by Andrew Handyside around the world. In February 2011 I decided to create this dedicated blog to the work of Andrew Handyside, this allowed me to go into great details about each item and link it to my world map.<br />
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Each marker on my map indicates an item that was manufactured in Derby at the Britannia Ironworks by <b>Andrew Handyside & Co</b>, I have also included any items marked as <b>Derby Castings Limited</b> as these were also made at the same foundry.<br />
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I have used different coloured markers for different items as follows.<br />
Yellow = Bridges<br />
Purple = Railway Stations/Roofs/Buildings.<br />
Blue = Fountains/Vases/Urns<br />
Red = Pillar Boxes/Post Boxes/Wall Boxes<br />
Red Triangle = Location of item no longer present (demolished).<br />
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Down the left side of the map you will see all the markers, you can scroll this list down and simply click on an item to make the map highlight the location. A pop up window will show when you do this giving more information on the item.<br />
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or you can simple drap the map around and use the mouse wheel to zoom in on places and then click on a marker to learn more. <br />
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<b>See my Andrew Handyside world map here, Just click the link below :</b><br />
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=12.554564,30.761719&spn=114.338888,270.527344">World map of items manufactured by Andrew Handyside & Co</a>.<br />
or..<br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208452953436306162382.00048e30a316aab2a5d23&msa=0&ll=53.324312,-2.098389&spn=5.356125,16.907959">Map showing items made by Andrew Handyside & Co, Zoomed in over the U.K</a>.<br />
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I hope you found my map of interest. If you know of anything out there around the world made by Andrew Handyside that I have not yet mapped out here then please get in touch so I can add it to my map.<br />
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Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-70936159957991575272011-09-15T05:56:00.000+01:002011-09-15T05:56:35.883+01:00Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London built by Andrew Handyside in 1873.The Derby firm Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made many hundreds of other bridges of many different sizes around the world. This bridge in London has to be one of the most famous and attractive looking bridges that Andrew Handyside built.<br />
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<b>Albert Bridge</b> is a Grade II listed road bridge over the River Thames in West London, It connects Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Albert Bridge was Grade II-listed in 1975.<br />
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It was designed by the Victorian Engineer <b>Rowland Mason Ordish</b> from Melbourne in Derbyshire (who designed St Pancras Railway station roof, Derby Market Hall, Esplande Mansions). <br />
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It has been used as a backdrop for several films such as Absolute Beginners, Sliding Doors and Maybe Baby as well as music videos (see links to video below the photographs.) <br />
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The bridge was entirely manufactured in Derby at the Britannia Iron Works by Andrew Handyside in 1872.<br />
The bridge is 710 foot long. The river pier is formed by two concrete columns within cast iron cylinders, these were not made by Handyside but were cast at a foundry adjoining the site.<br />
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The bridge is covered with 4000 low-voltage tungsten-halogen bulbs which are switched on when night falls to create an absolutely stunning looking bridge.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photographs of Albert Bridge.</b></span><br />
My Panoramic photo of the bridge <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5041063465/" title="Albert Bridge panoramic Photograph by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Albert Bridge panoramic Photograph" height="256" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5041063465_7e62ede627_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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My photo from Chelsea end of the end of the bridge.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5041064127/" title="Albert Bridge, London by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="Albert Bridge, London" height="480" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5041064127_72a6717f91_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Albert bridge is covered with thousands of lights so looks great at night here.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/74908590@N00/3217396331/" title="Fireworks over Albert Bridge by rob macneice, on Flickr"><img alt="Fireworks over Albert Bridge" height="495" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3217396331_9423fa850d_z.jpg?zz=1" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/43855311@N06/4256244959/" title="Albert Bridge 1 by Christopher Hope-Fitch, on Flickr"><img alt="Albert Bridge 1" height="640" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/4256244959_811fceab7e_z.jpg?zz=1" width="510" /></a><br />
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<b>Videos featuring this bridge:</b><br />
A time-lapse video of a day in the life of Albert Bridge.<br />
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Links to more videos:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/8p55zFU2iS0?t=21s">View from a Speed boat going under Albert Bridge at night</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/m_zckQxAUTA">Albert bridge at night</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/DEQnu0OrmtQ">Albert Bridge sunrise time-lapse</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/Pq33z4LdK2Q">Albert Bridge Publicity Stunt - car on two wheels</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/XwXdHHHqjrM">Video postcard of Albert Bridge</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/D_Bj8wrXslk?t=2m50s">Music video - Don't Get Me Wrong by The pretenders</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/TejJDFt6Tkk?t=1m59s">Music Video - Misty Morning Albert Bridge by The Pogues</a>.<br />
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<b>My Reference :</b><br />
Pages 170-175 of Works in Iron - Bridge and Roof Structures by Ewing Matheson of the firm Andrew Handyside And Co., Engineers, Derby and London.<br />
Published by E & F.N. Spon 1873.<br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://g.co/maps/3kpwg">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this bridge on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
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Google Streetview has captured this bridge <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Albert+Bridge,+Wandsworth,+London&hl=en&ll=51.482391,-0.16676&spn=0.005666,0.016512&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.981746,67.631836&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.482391,-0.16676&panoid=n6vjNGg3MrR_UfG7ZJS5MA&cbp=12,335.12,,0,-2.11">HERE</a>.<br />
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<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other bridges around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Andy Andy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com1Kensington, Greater London, UK51.482550082908162 -0.1668585928680386151.442887582908163 -0.23717309286803862 51.522212582908161 -0.096544092868038611tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973030464360956276.post-14871772182432967252011-09-14T06:37:00.013+01:002011-09-14T06:37:00.355+01:00Derby Castings Limited GR Wall Box on Willington Post Office made in 1933.Did you know that Andrew Handyside who made Friar Gate bridge in Derby also made thousands of iconic Pillar boxes for the UK and Ireland? I doubt many people are aware of this fact that they were made right here in Derby at the Britannia Ironworks on Duke Street, Derby.<br />
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Handyside had the Post Office Contract to make pillar boxes from 1878 to 1933 (1931-1933 known as Derby Castings). So its highly likely that at some point in your life a letter will have been posted via a Handyside box.<br />
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Here is one such example of a Wall Box that was made at the Britannia Ironworks in 1933. This one is still in constant use to this day. Its located in the wall outside the Post Office on The Castle Way in Willington, Derbyshire, UK.<br />
The GR is the Royal cipher for King George V.<br />
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Manufacture of cast-iron wall boxes in the UK for postal use finished in 1980.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photographs</b></span><br />
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Photograph showing the location of the Wall Box outside Willington Post Office<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6135974475/" title="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire" height="325" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6135974475_f724c62db6.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Photograph showing the complete wall box.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6136521552/" title="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire" height="640" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6079/6136521552_bd3ec15dda_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
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Photograph showing the Royal Cipher and makers badge "Derby Castings Limited, Derby"<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/6136522308/" title="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire by comedyhunter, on Flickr"><img alt="GR Wall Box at Willington Post Office, Derbyshire" height="480" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6170/6136522308_5a002edb1f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b>Map Location:</b><br />
View my <a href="http://g.co/maps/gshtd">Andrew Handyside World Map</a> to see the exact location of this Wall Box on the world map. <br />
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://g.co/maps/g6h5u">Google Streetview</a> of this wall box.<br />
<br />
<b>Can you help find more Handyside stuff ?</b><br />
If anyone out there knows of any other Pillar Boxes around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
AndyAndy Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620726794196553780noreply@blogger.com0