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Black Potts timber footbridge is exceedingly dangerous<\/strong><\/span> and has structurally deteriorated steadily since it was closed last year.\u00a0 In my opinion this footbridge will soon collapse into the Jubilee River.\u00a0 Please stay off the bridge.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The two images below show the enlarging cracks on the south beam and were recorded one year apart.<\/p>\n

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Black Potts timber footbridge is exceedingly dangerous and has structurally deteriorated steadily since it was closed last year.\u00a0 In my opinion this footbridge will soon collapse into the Jubilee River.\u00a0 Please stay…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,179],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-potts-footbridge","tag-timber-footbridge-failure"],"yoast_head":"\nBlack Potts timber footbridge - going! going! nearly gone! - DHWNEWS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=4111\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Potts timber footbridge - going! 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