I met a friend in town for coffee today. Took this photo whilst walking to the high street. The High Bridge, also known as the glory hole, carries the High Street across the river Witham, in Lincoln city. It is the oldest bridge in the UK on which buildings still stand. The bridge was built around 1160. The current row of black & white buildings date back to around 1550.
I love the way the fire escape stairs of the building in the foreground ends before it reaches the floor đ¤ˇââď¸
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So, you jump on the fence when you get to the bottom of the fire escape? Or if everything is on fire, you jump in the water? Ha ha. Itâs a great sight though, enjoyed your narrative.
Interesting. We often referred to a glory hole in houses we've lived in. Usually a cupboard under the stairs, full of lesser used 'things'! I googled the expression to find the origins, and whilst Merriam-Webser did define it as an area into which odds and ends are put haphazardly, there was a whole new meaning of the expression which appeared first on my innocent search. A new one on me, and enough to put me off using the expression for good!!!
@jamibann I can only imagine! Iâm not going to search it. This has been known as this for hundreds of years & I think the connotation was possibly something to do with smuggling & âstuffâ was stowed under that bridge. It always makes think of Bill Sykes, from âOliverâ & scenes that you see down by the water front. I think in times gone by this was perhaps not a very salubrious area. I certainly wouldnât walk this way in the dark even today, because the other side of the foreground building is an alleyway.
