Lendal Bridge
Gothic Revival cast-iron road bridge with heraldic railings and twin toll houses over the river.
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This guide to Lendal Bridge in York follows Tommy Burns, a Victorian showman diver from Liverpool who treated Britain's bridges as his stage, and the August day in eighteen ninety-two when his tour reached the Ouse. It touches on his running battles with the police, the crowds that followed him, and the rowers who have shared this stretch of river since before the bridge was built. Stand at the railings near the middle of the span, facing the boathouse on the west bank.
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