Sutton Bridge

[wayne69]

Hello,
        I'm looking for information regarding Bridge Street, Sutton St Mary, Sutton Bridge.Does anyone know if there was a school, either boarding or day, in this area. The dates would be between 1845 to about 1852.
                      Thank You

                                 Wayne

[Geoff-E]

Genuki says a school was built in 1878 http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/SuttonBridge/#Schools

If you go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=547902,321280 and select (on the right) the 1888-1889 1:2500 Lincs map, you'll see the site of that school towards the left of the map (but it's a much later date than you were asking about).

Now here's a funny thing ... if you select the 1889 1:2500 Norfolk map, there is another school marked somwhere on Wharf Street.   It doesn't appear on later maps, so may have been replaced by the new school.

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Post deleted. It is helpful to read the original thoroughly before replying!!!

[meggiemoo3]

Hello - I was brought up in Sutton Bridge and my parents still live there. Bridge Road, as it is now known runs from one end of the village to the other and used to be the main A17 trunk road until the by-pass was built in the 1990s.

The school on Bridge Road was built in 1878 and is fairly central in the village. When I was a little girl in the 1970s it was an infant school taking children until the age of 7. It closed as a school in the mid-80s when the infant school merged with the junior school down Anne Road to become a primary school.

My grandfather attended the school when he was a little boy in the early 1900s.

http://www.bridgewatch.org.uk/town-reminiscences.html

This link, if you scroll down gives information on The British School which was in Wharf Street in Sutton Bridge. Apparently this was the boys school and the girls attended a school down Church Street. If you scroll down you will see a photo of the school on Bridge Road in the 1900s.

Hope this helps.

Melanie

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Regarding the bridge itself. It was built by the M&GN Railway company, and the maintenance of the bridge which I believe was a swing bridge was carried out by the LNER and subsequently the Eastern Region of British Railways Lincoln and finally Doncaster divisions. The direct responsibility for the maintenance was vested in the workshop staff at Boston, and callouts were rare, once or twice in the 4 years I worked there. However, in the early 1970s there was consternation at Doncaster accounts office when a bill was received from the then Holland County Council (Highways Dept) for work carried out on the bridge. After some 10 years, and two major re-organizations on the railway our responsibility for the bridge had been forgotten, and I was the only person still involved who remembered it. All others  who might have known had moved on in the organization, I was the only one whose promotions had all been local.Sorry for the digression, but hope this might be of interest.

[meggiemoo3]

Regarding the bridge itself. It was built by the M&GN Railway company, and the maintenance of the bridge which I believe was a swing bridge was carried out by the LNER and subsequently the Eastern Region of British Railways Lincoln and finally Doncaster divisions. The direct responsibility for the maintenance was vested in the workshop staff at Boston, and callouts were rare, once or twice in the 4 years I worked there. However, in the early 1970s there was consternation at Doncaster accounts office when a bill was received from the then Holland County Council (Highways Dept) for work carried out on the bridge. After some 10 years, and two major re-organizations on the railway our responsibility for the bridge had been forgotten, and I was the only person still involved who remembered it. All others  who might have known had moved on in the organization, I was the only one whose promotions had all been local.Sorry for the digression, but hope this might be of interest.

The current bridge is  actually the 3rd bridge which has spanned the River Nene. The first was opened in 1831 and designed by John Rennie the Younger and Thomas Telford. It was replaced in 1850, this time being designed by Robert Stephenson. The current bridge opened in 1897 at a cost of £80,000. Since 1959 it has been a road bridge only.

[hanes teulu]

http://www.historialdirectories.org/hd/findbykeyword.asp

Pigot and Co's Directories of 1835 and 1841 mention a number of schools under "Sutton Bridge"

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The current bridge opened in 1897 at a cost of £80,000. Since 1959 it has been a road bridge only.

Correct, this co-inciding with the closure of the former M&GN railway at that time. Rail operations had ceased at the beginning of 1959, but there was an interim period while the railway tore up the track and reclaimed materials. However, the maintenance remained with BR, and presumably is still vested in Network Rail (Heaven help them, the road users not NR!)