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Bristol’s most bonkers bridge
Your eyes are not deceiving you – that is indeed a caravan spanning Leonard Lane.
It’s only an artist’s impression at the moment but this could soon be a bridge doubling up as office space and mini art studio for Centrepace Gallery.
The existing bridge used to connect the Times & Mirror newspaper offices on St Stephen’s Street (now a backpackers hostel) to the printing presses in what is now Centrespace.
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If plans are approved, the exterior of the bridge will be clad with stainless steel panels giving the effect of a caravan suspended above the road between the buildings on Leonard Lane.
Artists at the Centrespace cooperative of art studios believe that the replacement bridge “would provide character as well as prominence for the studios / galleries”.
“I think it’s a really good idea,” Dorrel Ferguson from architects Redeem told the Bristol Post.
“You won’t see anything like it anywhere else on the planet.”
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