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©Bill Henderson
Looking SW from position
©Iain Macaulay
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Two clubhouses side by side. On the left, the Brotherton Amateur Rugby League Football Club Clubhouse and on the right, the Brotherton Flying Club. The flying club is not faor aviators, but pigeon fliers!!
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.3km north<br/>For a picture of the bridge itself see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/579138
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Just north of the power station.
©Steve F
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.3km north<br/>On the Aire & Calder Navigation looking north, the bottom part of Brotherton church can be seen between the white building and the bridge. The barge will stop at the wharf about a quarter of a mile around the bend to unload coal for Ferrybridge power stations.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Low Street Brotherton with Ferrybridge power station in the background.
©Steve F
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The river Aire looking north (upstream) towards the Pontefract-York rail bridge
©D Gore
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The existing girders were put in in 1903 replacing the tubular girders of the original 1850 bridge.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Originally built in 1850 as a tubular bridge (similar to the well known Britannia and Conwy bridges on the Holyhead line) the current girders were installed in 1903. See commemorative stone [[579134]]. In the background the cooling towers of Ferrybridge Power Station.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Brotherton
©Darren Haddock
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The A1 trunk road has now been diverted to the western side of Ferrybridge power station. The old A1 trunk road has become little more than a local access road.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Lying across the River Aire/Aire and Calder Navigation The village of Brothertron along with its neighbour Fairburn has until recently been split in two by the noisy A1. Now it is peaceful once more.
©derek dye
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is the former Brotherton Fox Hotel, a well known landmark on the Old Great North Road.
©Bill Henderson

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