Every town has one thing that makes it stand out. It could be anything - a park, a church, a street, a tree. It's usually not something you expect, but you know it as soon as you see it, and then you go 'ah, so that's why I'm here'. In Berwick-upon-Tweed, it's the cascade of bridges that caught my imagination. The first was built on the orders of James I, in 1611. The one behind it is a modern road bridge, and behind that the magnificent railway bridge, built in 1847-50 by Robert Stephenson (with his bare hands).
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