BRIDGE OVER TWEED
OPENED BY PRINCE OLD BORDER FEUDS RECALLED. LONDON, May 23. When the Prince of Wales opened the Royal Tweed Bridge at Berwick, he said: “I hope everyone who uses this bridge whether southward bound or northward; bound, wil] have a prosperous journey.” The Prince said the erection of bridges over the Tweed had become almost a necessary habit, but goou Englishmen and good Scotsmen weie equally to blame for burning them down in the olden, turbulent border days. The old bridge which had endured since James I. was King of England and Scotland, would remain, but the vast increase of motor traffic necessitated a newer anid bigger link between the two countries. The bridge cost £160.000. It is the longest highway bridge in the kingdom.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 5 (Supplement)
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