Burdock Way and North Bridge : Halifax, West Yorkshire : August 2022
In the early 1970s Halifax Corporation beagn a scheme to improve the major roads than ran through the congested town centre and many of which focussed on the crossing of the rather insignificant Hebble Brook by way of the spendid North bridge of 1869 - 1871. This work primarily involved a new route for the A58 that runs from north east to south west across the town. The new route involved several engineering challenges thrown up by Halifax's topology and that includes the crossing of the Hebble Brook. This was achieved in the high level concrete viaducts that form Burdock Way and the associated slip roads that span the valley almost above the original North Bridge. These make soaring, almost sculptural forms when seen from the level of the brook.
The original schemes would have also included another high level crossing that would have carried the A58 over the major junction to the south west of the bridges but this was never constructed.
Burdock Way and North Bridge : Halifax, West Yorkshire : August 2022
In the early 1970s Halifax Corporation beagn a scheme to improve the major roads than ran through the congested town centre and many of which focussed on the crossing of the rather insignificant Hebble Brook by way of the spendid North bridge of 1869 - 1871. This work primarily involved a new route for the A58 that runs from north east to south west across the town. The new route involved several engineering challenges thrown up by Halifax's topology and that includes the crossing of the Hebble Brook. This was achieved in the high level concrete viaducts that form Burdock Way and the associated slip roads that span the valley almost above the original North Bridge. These make soaring, almost sculptural forms when seen from the level of the brook.
The original schemes would have also included another high level crossing that would have carried the A58 over the major junction to the south west of the bridges but this was never constructed.