Barnespool Bridge High Street Eton

Baldwin’s Bridge Trust Competition - Mr Alfred M. Fowler, M. Inst. C.E., Manchester, has been awarded the first premium for the new Bridge, Eton, Windsor. The designs were submitted to an eminent engineer. [Builder 28 April 1883 page 587]

LISTING TEXT - Road bridge over Barne's Pool. Dated 1883; designed by A.M. Fowler, engineer. Wide single span bridge taking the High Street over Barne's Pool [now drained]; the carriageway is supported on transverse fish belly iron girders separated by diagonal braces; iron lattice girder parapets and granite terminal piers with ornate cast iron lamp standards; the abutments are of brick with granite quoins.

Reference    Slough Eton and Windsor Observer 13 October 1883 page 5
Reference    Builder 28 April 1883 page 587