Growing up in Woolston on the east bank of Southampton's River Itchen, photographer Greg Moss knows this bridge well. He must have crossed it 1000 times - sometimes with a raised heart rate, pelting over it as an Air Cadet. His family has lived here for generations but would not all have been acquainted with its hollow box sections spanning 800m over the estuary. Until it opened in 1977, there was a chain ferry here; but had his father wanted to avoid that, it would have meant a short journey north to the concrete Northam bridge. His grandfather would have gone to the stones of Cobden bridge upriver and his great grandfather might have needed to use the lock crossing at Woodmill, where the river's fresh water meets the tidal salt - each generation casting back into engineering time.
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