Some of these photos were taken by contributors but the majority were taken during a filmshoot - for a BBC programme about dangerous jobs - when following the work of engineers checking the nearby pylons and overhead power lines coming from Connah's Quay Power Station. Click through the photos to see the engineers.
your comments
Wil, Wrexham
White elephant is an accurate description at the moment. Except it's missing a TRUNK (road) from Connah's Quay end of the bridge to join up to the A55, possibly somewhere in the region of Northop, or is this too obvious a sensible alternative to the unwanted proposed (and aborted?) road-widening at Aston Hill?
Mon Sep 1 11:41:09 2008
Ron from Connah's Quay
As I told the Flintshire Director of Transportation, the Flintshire bridge is the right colour-white elephants should be white'
Mon Jan 28 07:59:14 2008
Debbie Withcombe
Does anyone know the name of the college where people were trained to maintain pylons - imptec?
Thu Aug 23 16:26:10 2007
Hayden Ellsum, Ex Shotton now Aussie
Impressive, I'll have to get back to Wales one day, and look up a few friends, and of course try the New bridge. Is this near Edmunds hollow? I can't quite place where it starts, and where it ends. Reminds me of duck shooting in the winter of 1963 on the marshes, Hayden.
Fri Aug 17 10:49:34 2007
Owen Davies, Connah's Quay
The HTTP to get into the Flintshire Bridge is sites/flint_town/.Flintshire Bridge is some 4.5 miles away from Flint, the Flintshire Bridge comes within the boundary of Connah's Quay, not Flint.
Fri Aug 17 10:48:51 2007
Cassi Abbott from Derby
I was watching the show and I didn't catch the name of the pylon college that those people were at. Does anyone know the name as I was wishing to enroll in one! Any help will do.
Wed Aug 15 10:02:07 2007
Helen B Garden City
Great photos - could this not be the 'Welcome to Wales' art project instead of the eyesore they are proposing for the A550 in Queensferry/Garden City? http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PostcardtoWales/
Fri Jun 29 11:06:58 2007
Andrew Lawrence Lancashire
I remember when the Flinshire Bridge was built and it was built to take the strain of the traffic on the Chester road. Has it worked? No! What a joke, but it made it easy to get to work or to Wirral. Deeside could have done with improvements to the roads and public transports.
Fri May 18 10:04:52 2007
Laura from Connahs Quay
Some very good photos even though I think the bridge is not the best thing! Brave engineers must have a great head for heights.
Fri May 11 15:12:45 2007
Roy Blackmore from New Zealand
These are such fantastic pictures. Top marks to the photographers for such wonderful views. Last year, I travelled across the bridge for the first time and remembered the days when I used to Cycle over the original bridge in the '50s.
Fri May 11 09:02:35 2007
Steve Williams from Buckley
I've been watching the guys up the power lines recently, as their 'base' is in Corus Shotton. I can definitely say brave bunch of guys. No way would you get me up there!
Fri May 11 07:56:43 2007
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