Brimmicroft footbridge, view north west, 12 December 1997
Brimmicroft overbridge, view north west (see all photos of the same view)
Brimmicroft bridge is at the bottom of the picture, carrying a footpath and - somewhere underneath the deck - a piped stream. Two works vehicles are parked below it on the hard shoulder. In the distance, the bridge over the Leeds-Liverpool canal is visible.
Structure 19 (Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge)
Structure 19a (Brimmicroft overbridge)
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