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Where's our bridge?
NICK WRIGHT reports on a campaign in Kent to bring a bridge back into use, and a community back to life, which has met with some success
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IN the heart of Faversham is a rusting swing bridge that carries traffic across Faversham creek but prevents water-borne access to a muddy tidal basin. Set between the Shepherd Neame brewery and an engineering works and bordered by trees it has lain empty and unused for decades.
This could change if an insurgent campaign, sparked off by retired social worker Marion Barton and former trade union leader Rosie Eagleson, is able to win its demands.
Four years ago the town was galvanised by a fundraising campaign following a pledge from council leaders that if the town’s citizens could raise £125,000 match funding and more would be available to replace the bridge.
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