Country Life
A GUILD OF BRIDGE-BUILDERS.
It is sometimes said that Herefordshire is behind the times, and on behalf of that lovely county I should like first, to put it on record that it has gone right back to the Middle Ages in one regard, and second, to suggest that others would be well advised to take the same backward and yet progressive step. The County Council and its engineers have been taking precise and particular care of the bridges, which cross such lovely streams as the Wye, the Arrow and the Teme. They have preserved and widened, conserving the original grace, even in the teeth of transport " fans" who demanded complete reconstruction. Bridge after bridge has been reconditioned without loss, indeed, sometimes with improvement of its appearance. The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, as well as the Hereford County Council, must be given much praise for this artistic conservation ; but it is that new and yet old method by which the work has been tried I should wish to emphasize.
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