Unloading Gantry - Queenstaith

Now derelict, the gantry forms a frame for Skeldergate Bridge in the background. At one time there were numerous warehouses along Queenstaith and Skeldergate serving the river traffic of goods. Nowadays most of the warehouses have either been converted into apartments or knocked down and replaced with large apartment buildings or been converted to some other use.

Doors within the walls 6 - 31 Skeldergate

This door is located at the Skeldergate Bridge end of Skelderagte opposite the Bonding Warehouse.

Millenium Footbridge

The Millenium footbridge, lilke most Millenium projects completed after the 2000, some will argue yes that is correct as the Millenium did not really start until 2001. The bridge cost GBP4.2 million and was funded as a Millenium Project. The bridge is a pedestrtian and bicycle bridge and for those that are into construction details and information like who designed it and who the main contractors on the project were visit "structurae" website.

For those that are interested in looking at it there are several approaches, the most scenic is to walk along either riverbank from Skeldergate Bridge following the flow of the river downstream, depending on which side of the river you take you will either go via Blue Bridge or pass the Caravan site and Rowntree Park. Other approaches would be from the A19 Fulford Road down Hospital Fields Road or Maple Grove, from the South side the approach would be via Bishopthorpe Road and Butcher Terrace.

Skeldergate Bridge

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.