Mike Jones identifies the bridge from the Echo archives
NAME that bridge.
Looking Back regular reader Mike Jones recognised another of the photos taken from the Echo archives that featured over the festive period.
Most of the photos appeared to be from the 1920/30s, with a few dating back to the Great War.
The photos were glued into scrapbooks, with only the occasional hand-written caption beside them, so the locations and people in them are often a mys- tery. Who took the trouble to put them in the books is also a mystery, and it is thought that it could have been the Echo’s second editor Charlie Harriss, or it may have even been William Arthur Deakin, the son of the Echo founder, Joseph Deakin.
Mike said that the bridge shown in the Nottingham Road Railway Bridge, taken possibly just after the war.
He said: “To the right is the Railway Inn which later became the East Midlands Hotel before its demolition some years back. Beyond that is the former station master’s house which was used as an annexe to the hotel.
“Both were rather inappropriately used for a while, by Charnwood Council, to temporarily rehouse homeless families.
“To the left is a diamond shaped, cast iron, eight restriction sign. These were commonplace at one time, particularly at railway or canal bridges.
“I spent a number of happy evenings in the “Railway” in the 1960s, sometimes playing darts or listening to live music. Oh yes, and having a drink or two!”
Did you used to play darts, or drink in the Railway Inn pub?
Or maybe you have your own fond memories of the Midland Railway Station? If so please call Liam Coleman on 01509 635806 or email liam.coleman@trinitymirror.com