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Bailey Bridge

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Bailey Bridge. This pedestrian bridge in the City of Thompson is a small portion of a much larger structure that spanned the Burntwood River from 1957 to 1970. Named the Bailey Bridge after Sir Donald Bailey (1901-1985), a British War Office designer who invented a portable bridge that could be built quickly and efficiently with a few simple hand tools, this particular bridge was manufactured at Appleby, England.http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/baileybridge.shtmlBailey’s bridge was around until I970. I was six when they replaced it with the new bridge. It was one lane. We had to wait for the other side to pass. I could remember the sound of the wood as we passed over to the the other side. There are some pics of it’s construction in 1959. Yes…that is Dr Hoe, the beloved dentist, in one picture. I was wondering, was there a train track on one half of the bridge? One picture seems to suggest so. We can still walk a small portion of the original bridge in a local park in Thompson. I am thankful when history is preserved.




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