Monday, 2 April 2018
Peachfield Bridge - Broome Hall
This week's post comes courtesy of Alan Hodges, who has provided this fantastic shot of 4908 'Broome Hall' crossing Malvern Common on its way to Ledbury in 1955. The picture is even more interesting because it shows a rare angle of the northern side of the old LMS bridge under Peachfield Road. Broome Hall was built in 1929 and sadly dismantled at a scrapyard in South Wales in 1964, but it had already outlived the Tewkesbury branch line in the background by the time this picture was taken.
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Fabulous old photo. By then the LMS line out to Hanley Road and onto Tewkesbury had been closed since December 1952 so the line had been removed buypt lovely to see the bridge still in place.
ReplyDeleteIt amazed me to see a Victorian pillar box standing, well within 100 metres of the North East [far left, looking at this photo.] corner of the bridge parapet. This, rather beautiful, red, fluted post box still stands today; indeed it it still in use. Date of manufacture, as i recall, being 1857; the date is inscribed upon the box. This is the pillar box: Https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6815928 . This photo was taken from the opposite, Eastern/downhill side of the bridge; also from the North side on the right to left axis. Road-wise, as the photo shows, the box stands spot on the junction of Peachfield Road and Andrews Road. So, I estimate that the lamp post featuring in the box photo, far side of Peachfield road from the box is very close to where the bridge and rail track were centred. As the bridge cutting has been totally filled in, both sides of the erstwhile bridge, it is pretty much impossible to see the exact location today. The old track bed is however used as a walkway, just some 200m to the South; and to the North there are clues as to where it ran, looking at a remnant tree line over the grassy common, heading into the back gardens of [some encroaching, others not ?!] the line of homes running adjacent to Andrews road.
ReplyDeleteAttenuation to above comment: The question begs: Why the heck was this very substantial post box erected in a location that, at that date, was well beyond the fringe of the urban area of Malvern/Malvern Wells? I am truly puzzled.
ReplyDeleteCorrection to above: St Andrews road, not "Andrews". [Can't edit comment; no URL]
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