Bridge Street works
Subsequent to my last post mentioning the reappearing traffic lights, it might have been Laser Civil Engineering not Central Networks. Having just walked back from dropping my car of for its MOT (note it took me as long to drive there as it did to walk back via the same route) I noted that work had been done on the pavements close to Raven Street and Coopers Lane. They've been resurfaced in some light mica type material, which looks totally out of place to the surroundings.
I also note that the skate-park is being partly dug up. I don't think I mentioned that the surrounding grass has been reset with a plastic honeycomb, which should stop it being churned up; but now the area between the ramp and pyramid has been removed. This is part of the entire concrete slab that took so long to lay due to needing the right weather conditions to use the super special leveling machinery. As we know that turned out well with a puddle forming at the base of ramp every time it rained.
So it seems someone's noted the problem and is attempting to fix it, good timing after the school holidays, but it does mean there's likely to be a seam between the two sections. Now of course if it had been done properly in the first place by a specialist skate-park firm rather then a spin-off from a playground developer...
Oh and as for the map that's at the top of Bridge Street I mentioned. They have High Street feeding directly to Mitton Street then a bridge which as this is a celebration of canal heritage I have to assume is the canal bridge (especially as it then links to Lion Hill). Trouble is the section that runs from the canal bridge to the High Street is not Mitton Street, depending on who you talk to it's either High Street or Lickhill Road. Looking at my unlabeled pre-canal map that shows Mitton Street connecting directly to Lickhill Road with 'High Street' as an afterthought, this would suggest it's Lickhill Road. Either way it's not Mitton Street proven by the fact that the Black Star on the other side of the bridge is 1 Mitton Street. Oopsie!
2 comments:
Phipps & Pritchard are no 1 High St, the opticians 2a and Outlook Finance, opposite and just town side of the canal bridge are classed as being in High Street. Lickhill Rd starts just on the corner by the Swan Hotel I think.
At first I wasn't sure if the map was supposed to represent Stourport at the time the canal was first built, but they do have an unnamed continuation of Lombard Street and Vale Road so I have to guess it's a modern view.
If that's the case then I concur that High Street continues around the corner to the bridge at which point it become Mitton Street. Trouble is this map has High Street, Mitton Street, bridge then Lion Hill when it should be High Street, bridge, Mitton Street then Lion Hill.
I could be nice and call it artistic licence... but I won't :-)
Oh and an update on the mica surface as I watched them put some down around the map. They slap down the marzipan then dust on the icing sugar (licorice for the driveways). I recall someone saying they were going to put down an anti-slip coating and this is gritty enough to be that, just looks so wrong.
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