An iconic bridge that has featured in movies together with James Bond’s Spectre is to obtain a £533,000 revamp.
The Grade II-listed Interchange Basin Towpath Bridge on the Regent’s Canal in Camden – recognized recognized domestically as Useless Dog Bridge – is the busiest canal footbridge within the nation with over a million strolling and biking visits per 12 months.
No is ready for ten-week restore undertaking by the charity Canal & River Belief, paid for by the Folks’s Postcode Lottery.
In-built 1846, the historic bridge is a crucial native landmark carrying the Regent’s Canal towpath throughout the canal basin beneath the Camden Interchange Warehouse.
Constructed initially of the twentieth century by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR), the huge purple brick Interchange Warehouse was designed to carry collectively canal, rail and highway transport in a single lined constructing, with three layers of storage.
The doorway to the Interchange Dock grew to become often known as ‘Useless Dog Tunnel’ as a result of particles – together with useless animals – traditionally collected right here on the finish of the 26-mile lock-free stretch of the canal flowing into central London.
The bridge repairs have been enabled by an award from Postcode Earth Belief due to cash raised by gamers of Folks’s Postcode Lottery.
The work is because of start in mid-January 2023 and be accomplished by the tip of March 2023.
It’s going to embody repairs to the bridge’s wrought iron lattice parapets; cleansing of the underlying forged iron beams; and cleansing and repointing the abutments and method parapets.
The bridge will likely be closed all through the undertaking, and towpath diversion routes will likely be in place. The canal will stay open for boats to navigate.
Useless Dog Tunnel was used as a double for Q’s high secret underground workshop in 2015’s Bond movie Spectre.
Ros Daniels, the Canal & River Belief’s director for London & South East, mentioned: “Now over 175 years previous, the bridge’s placing wrought iron lattice parapets will likely be lovingly restored, made potential due to the gamers of Folks’s Postcode Lottery.
“The works will guarantee this historic bridge continues to hold tens of millions of tourists having fun with the Regent’s Canal in Camden, for a few years to return.”
