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Turnbridge Lift Bridge (also known as a Locomotive lift bridge) is a lift bridge which spans the Huddersfield Broad Canal at Turnbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Officially known as Turnbridge, it is bridge it is bridge number 17 on the Huddersfield Broad Canal. The bridge carries Quay Street over the canal close to the town centre and was built in 1865 to replace an earlier swing bridge. Boatmen used a windlass to wind a combination of wheels, chains and counter-weights to lift the deck of the bridge vertically out of the way of passing canal boats. The bridge was refurbished in 2002 and converted to electrical power at that time.

 

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