PHOTO: Under the Valley Bridge, taken 1971Few people would realise that the big girders that hold up the massive half mile long Valley Bridge adjacent to the Westwood Secondary School (as it was then) in Scarborough are actually hollow.
How do I know this?
Because various school friends and I at several times, used to crawl from one side of the valley to the other THROUGH THE GIRDERS. The space inside the girders is tight but just big enough for someone of our age in those days. There's not much to see inside of them, and they are dusty and dirty, but it was quite exciting crawling across the spans and arriving onto the top of the stone structures you can see above. For youngsters who were accustomed to climbing the walls of the Castle (more about this later) it was surpringly easy to climb up to the girders.
We often thought it was quite funny that the local council were always discussing ways to stop people throwing themselves off the top of the bridge, (they've since put up railings and barbed wire) when it would have been easier to throw oneself off from the underneath.
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