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Portions of this old drawbridge remain as fishing piers.
* Maryland Route 731 leads straight into the center of town, meeting a dead end where the old drawbridge span over the Nanticoke River used to be.
The new bridge features a " flyover " span tall enough for sailboats to pass under, replacing the old bridge's bascule drawbridge span.
There is a famous old drawbridge that is the oldest of its kind in Japan and still in use.
It turned north along the east bank of the Mobile River, crossing the river into Plateau, Alabama, over the Cochrane Bridge ( removed ), another old drawbridge where the current Cochrane – Africatown USA Bridge is now located.
Remains of old castles include part of the walls of Bungay, the ancient stronghold of the Bigods ; the picturesque ruins of Mettingham, built by John de Norwich in the reign of Edward III ; Wingfield, surrounded by a deep moat, with the turret walls and the drawbridge still existing ; the splendid ruin of Framlingham, with high and massive walls, originally founded in the 6th century, but restored in the 12th ; the outlines of the extensive fortress of Clare Castle, anciently the baronial residence of the earls of Clare ; and the fine Norman keep of Orford Castle, on an eminence overlooking the sea.
The old bridge was the site of a skirmish during the English Civil War in 1643 and was left with a wooden drawbridge structure on the Berkshire half.
The Florida State Road Department determined a new four lane drawbridge was needed to replace the old structure.
This allows the end that the old drawbridge was removed probably in the 18th century or even only in the 19th century and was substituted with a stone bridge.
Image: Sanibel Bridge A. jpg | The old drawbridge next to the current Bridge A as seen prior to demolition
Noteworthy are the old latrines and their chute into the sea as are the two sets of doors and the drawbridge mechanism.
The old walled town ( Ville Close ) still has traces of its medieval ramparts dating from the 13th to 15th centuries as well as a large fortified 15th century gatehouse complete with double-doors with drawbridge slots, known as the Porte du Broërec.

old and operated
From 1979 to 1997, he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated near the border of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to power, with nominal United Nations recognition as the rightful government of Cambodia.
The old underground mines are exhausted, but open pit mining has operated since 1994 east of Cripple Creek, near its sister city of Victor, Colorado.
Nevertheless, during the last Carlist war, modern artillery operated by Carlists from surrounding mountains showed that the old walls would not be enough in the face of a stronger enemy.
The 1905-1906 academic year was a year of transition ; the new University of the State of Florida was legally created, but operated on the campus of the old University of Florida in Lake City until the first buildings on the new campus in Gainesville were completed.
The campus incorporates the buildings of two old farms that once operated on the college site.
However, once IMER acquired XERF, it was left with the old, broken transmitter, for which there were no parts, and a second, 50 kW transmitter, which was also having problems, and XERF operated with only 15, 000 watts.
This culminated in 1990 when the closure of Pratt's-a department store, which had grown from a Victorian draper's shop, and had been operated since the 1940s by the John Lewis Partnership-coincided with the opening of a large Sainsbury's supermarket 1 km south of the town centre, replacing an old, smaller Sainbury's store opposite Streatham Hill railway station.
A later canning company operated in the 1940s at the old elementary school grounds in Springfield.
Ironically, Silverlink trains operated on the route to the north of the old LMS, the LNER's greatest rival.
From the early 1950s to about 1994, a small resort of about twelve cabins on North Keppel Island was operated by old Mr Walls, a former train driver.
The Bunker Hill Historical Museum, operated by the Bunker Hill Historical Society, is located in the old town hall in the first east block of Warren Street.
In former years, Noble had four hotels: The Cottage Hotel operated by the Black family ; the old Gertsch Hotel located on the north side of main street ( this was said to be one of the oldest buildings in town ); Hotel Hazel, a large frame building ( later covered with brick ), which was just north of the railroad on Noble Avenue ; and Truitt's OK Hotel in the northwestern part of Noble.
Warren Elementary School operated in the old high school building for many years, its basketball team having adopted the old high school's nickname ; " Lightning 5.
Also at home in Dowagiac is Caruso's Candy & Soda Shoppe, family owned and operated since 1922, with a fully operating old fashioned soda fountain, homemade candy, and lunch.
He operated a tavern on the old Chicago Road between Chicago and Detroit ( now US 12 ), known as the " White Oak Tavern " because of an immense oak tree near the house.
The old Redford Township District Library operated from 1962 until August 23, 2004 when the library moved to a new building.
The old Morris and Essex Railroad is operated today by NJ Transit.
The remaining spur of the old Wallkill Valley Railroad, now operated by Norfolk Southern, serves several businesses in the village and ends just short of East Main Street.
Luther S. Holden, John's son, operated the old hotel that his father had built, started development of the property nearby and became a permanent resident in 1946.
The town was originally centered around a tavern operated by Isaac English, located on an old roadway that ran from Cranberry, North Carolina down to Marion, NC.
The old No. 9 Mine and Museum in Lansford, a deep mine which operated from 1855 to 1972, is now open as a tourist attraction offering tours of the mine and a wealth of information on local mining history.
Managed by the Kramers and operated by the Kramers and the other German families, the old glassworks produced window glass with individual glassworkers blowing bottles, bowls and ornaments as gifts for family and friends.
Shutz, Shay & Heebner operated the colliery until August 1869, when they sold their rights to Broderick, Conyngham & Co. At the same time, BC & C entered into leases to operate the Nottingham Colliery, the old John Smith mine and the old Abijah Smith mine, and from then on all four mines were operated under common management.

old and so
Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.
Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.
This is precisely what makes lucid, straightforward music so difficult to compose -- the clarity must be new, not old ''.
The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once more, only this time he couldn't pacify it with a sleeping pill and send it away.
If so, you are of the old school.
very old red wine is often decanted so that the puckering, bitter elements which have settled to the bottom will not be mingled with the wine itself.
Jeopardize it now to correct so old a wrong??
There is an inwardness and a luster to old furniture ( look at that mahogany highboy behind you ) which has a provocative emanation, if I may say so.
And it was because of an old Norberg inheritance that I got to understand them all so well.
After all this destruction of old literature, it should be obvious why we have so little information about the early history and development of the Lo Shu, which was already semisecret anyhow.
Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.
He straightened himself, soldierly against the wall, and pulled his sprawled feet together so they stood side by side in their old boots.
Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.
And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.
The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.
Go back where you can bring no harm, or I will go and get the old man from his bed so he can see your shame ''!!
She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.
`` I'd had all this trouble with the old man, that's why I drank so much.

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