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The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
Oakleigh Road North, N20The railway bridge before rebuilding. See also image number 4856. The entrance to Beaconsfield Road is on the bottom right. Photograph by John Donovan
Picture added on 14 February 2013 at 12:23
I was asleep in bed the night they demolished the bridge with explosives, shook my bed enough to wake me and I was 400 yards away in Neville House around mid seventies
Added by Richard knights on 21 June 2018