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Les lacey
I was born in 1948 in Pillgwenlly. I learnt to swim in the river Usk by the Transpoter Bridge. On warm sunny nights, my elder brother Terry Lacey would push me in to the river and the only way out was to swim back. I now know it was swim or sink.
Roger Withers
How do you find out when it's working. No information on the site!
Gayne Wigmore from Kent
I still have fond memories of cycling from Malpas to Pill just to walk over the top of the Transporter Bridge when I was at school in the 1950s.
Herb Light
Many years back, early 60s, just beginning my introduction to the brown beverage called beer, I lived in Lliswerry at the time and me and one or two of the lads would go on a pub crawl,and end up drinking in the Pill area of town. I do remembered being in the Pill area one night and the last bus had gone, no buses after 11pm in them days, so it was decided that we would take the short cut to Lliswerry, and that meant climbing over the locked gate of the transporter bridge, and going over the top. Not being one for heights, you will understand that beer makes you do stupid things! Up and up we climbed and the higher we got the more my legs started to shake. Going across the walkway reduced me to crawling on the walkway boards. We finally got to the other side and made our way home - I must say that night as never been forgotten, and I've never been over the top of the bridge since, nor ever again. The year would have been about 1962. Those carefree teenage years...
Pamela Duke from Swindon
I come up regulary being a season ticket holder for the Black & Ambers and Dragons and I always smile when I see the bridge looking so majestic, serene and proud, just like the people of Newport themselves. Don't ever let go of your heritage as we have in Swindon - you cannot get it back when it is gone - hold on tight and be proud!!
Thank you for welcoming me into your "space".
Vikki Edmunds from Pontypool
I have just found out that my Great Great Grandfather presented a clock to the Transporter Bridge when it was first opened. He was a clock maker and repairer from Commercial Street, Newport. His name was Steven George Sunnucks. Does anybody know anything more about him?
Ross Taylor China
I was born in my grandmother's house in Lliswerry. I emigrated to New Zealand in the 70s. More recently I've been living in China. I've never forgotten "our" transporter bridge in my beloved Newport.
My memories are very vivid indeed. I always crossed the the Usk to Pill, mainly during the 60s as a boy. I would often look up to the walkway (being an adventuresome lad) and wish i could use it! The steel's painted colour was permanent green and the operators cabin was white in those days. I rememer it with great joy, because as in life, it's not the destination, but the journey which gives us unforgetable memories. The Transporter bridge is a wonderful part of that journey. Thank you.
Lester Stenner, Weston super Mare
I remember walking across the top of the bridge in 1947 with my Grandfather. He was an Inspector in Newport Borough Police, and obviously fixed it. It used to cost a penny to go across in a car - I think pedestrians went for nothing. I thought it very high at the time, but having been back recently, realised that it wasn't that high. It probably looked high to a six year old!
Simon Moseley, Newport
What great members of staff that run the bridge - always happy and up for a laugh. It is a great thing that it has been up for 100 years - here's to the next 100 years. The bridge will not be running from Monday 31 March for a month for some work to be done on it.
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