Contractors building a new recycling centre in South Bristol demolished a historic stone bridge over a river, after they were given permission to do so by council archaeologists.
The stone bridge crossed the Pigeonhouse Stream, the river that flows down from Hartcliffe into Bedminster, and divides the main road at Hartcliffe Way with the site of the new Bristol Waste household recycling centre on the edge of Bedminster.
Local residents said the bridge could date as far back as 200 years ago, and was underneath a concrete bridge over the stream that was constructed when the land to the east of the river was made into an industrial site in the 1960s.
