A spring day and the River Ouse is a peaty brown and reasonably full without bursting the banks. You can see water marks on the bridge towers from previous high levels. The River Ouse is the confluence of several rivers including the The Swale, The Ure, The Nidd and the much smaller Kyle. Just below Skeldergate Bridge it is also joined by The Foss.
The bridge standing on the site of a former ferry was designed by Thomas Page, who also designed Westminster bridge in London building took place in the 1880s and included a mechanism for the bridge to be raised for ships. It was last raised in 1975.
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