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BUILDING BRIDGES on the Droitwich Canals

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Web Editor

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March 14, 2025

REMOVING and installing canal footbridges is not an easy task. So, when contractor Griffiths was tasked with replacing two old bridges on the Droitwich Canals, the team knew it would require large-scale, unusual lifting operations on the water. With this in mind, the company turned to marine engineering and maintenance experts The Rothen Group to…
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CANAL CHARITY HAS THE HUMP OVER BRIDGE STRIKES COSTING UP TO £1 MILLION A YEAR!

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Janet Richardson

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February 10, 2022

National waterways and wellbeing charity, the Canal & River Trust, is asking drivers to take much more care when crossing the 200-year-old hump-back bridges that span the nation’s canal network. Among its 2,000-mile network of canals and rivers, the charity looks after 2,800 historical bridges. Hump-back bridges, synonymous with Britain’s canal network, were built 200…
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