Work to remove three tonnes of 'lovelock's from Bristol bridge begins

Work to remove three tonnes of 'lovelock's from Bristol bridge begins

Work has begun to remove three tonnes of ‘lovelocks’ - padlocks locked onto the rails - on a Bristol footbridge. Council officials began removing the locks first thing on Monday morning, although had stopped for a break by lunchtime with only a fraction of the locks removed.

Bristol City Council announced back in June this work would happen at Pero’s Bridge , which connects Narrow Quay with Bordeaux Quay across St Augustine’s Reach, because they feared the locks were getting too heavy for the bridge.

The council called on anyone who wanted to retrieve their locks on Pero’s Bridge to do so, before work began, and in June pledged that this work would be done before the Harbour Festival on the third week of July.

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