Landmarks on the River Lark

The River Lark
Locks, Staunches and Views

 

Picture Page 1, in Bury St Edmunds

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River Lark completely dry in the park. The Summer drought in 1921

Abbots Bridge with geese and sightseeers during the 1968 floods.

View of Eastgate Bridge from the Vinefields in 2008. Looking downstream.

View from Eastgate Bridge looking north (downstream) in the 1921 drought. The river bed is completely silted up.

Same view as before, looking downstream from Eastgate Bridge in 2008.

Looking back upstream to Eastgate Bridge in 2006. This was the official start of the navigation after 1699.

View downstream to the Eastgate Weir, by the Ram Meadow carpark.
This weir was built after 1968 as part of the flood defences for Bury.
New homes on the right date from 2007/2008.

View downstream to the railway bridge in Bury.
This concrete channel was built after 1968 as part of the flood defences for Bury.
A cut once existed here into the left bank to serve the Northgate Maltings. Tesco's carpark is visible through the arch.

Opening St Saviour's Wharf, October 1890. Although barges reached here in 1890, the work on the river was not properly finished until 1892, following a dispute with the building contractors.

Directors welcome the first gang of barges to St Saviour's Wharf in 1892, two years later than planned.

Gang of barges at St Saviour's Wharf

View downstream in Tesco's carpark.
This concrete channel was built after 1968 as part of the flood defences for Bury.
St Savior's Wharf was somewhere here, on the left.

Steam tug number 3, seen here upstream of Fornham Wharf, close to Tollgate Bridge. Number 3 was sold to Mr E H Goobey of Littleport in 1901, and became called Albion.

Rear of Kingsbury furniture warehouse, c1980. Originally built as a maltings in 1851, it was adjacent to the former Fornham Wharfs. From 1715 until about 1855, this was as close to the town as the barges could reach.

The maltings of 1851 stand empty and neglected here in 2007. Viewed from the Mildenhall Road.


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