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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bush Tucker Man on April 13, 2005, 15:38:42
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Did anyone else see 'Made In Britain' on Tuesday 12th? (BBC2 @ 20:30)
It's the Fred Dibnah series completed not long before he died.
During the episode, he was shown on the Scammonden Bridge (http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=404500.999999312&Y=417000.942664766&width=500&height=300&gride=404599.999999312&gridn=416799.942664766&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=grid&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=1&scale=25000) over the M62.
Which is a record-holder, as it's the longest single span concrete bridge in Europe.
Later in the show, as they arrived in Sheffield, they met a local historian by a Churchill Tank (WW2 vintage) positioned on a grassy knoll, which was there as a tribute to the foundries of the area that produced them for the Army.
I think the company in question was called Ransomes, who used to make steam wagons (just like the Sentinel)
The works was called; Newton & 'something'
Does anyone know where it's located?, so I can go have a look myself
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Found it after a mis-directed search last Sunday (Driffield day) & subsequent help from 'Range Rover Blues'
It's on a plinth of earth oon the site of the factory where they were built in WW2
For anyone interested it's located at this point (http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=435500.999999404&Y=398000.934860104&width=700&height=400&gride=435399.999999404&gridn=397899.934860104&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=grid&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=1&scale=25000)
Some of the photos arein this album (http://community.webshots.com/album/283072952dGZsdz/1)