The Lindum Hill, Lincoln, Time Shift Collection

I thought this major road in the centre of Lincoln was due a collection of time shift videos, so I've put together some of my favourites, from the busy junction at the bottom to the tight bends at the top just before Pottergate.

Lindum Hill was created in 1786, to link up new turnpiked roads to the north and south of the city. It was originally called "New Road", and you can still see that name in faded paint high on the corner house as you go round the sharp left hand bend at the top of the hill. Older viewers will remember the policeman in their little box directing the traffic at the junction before the lights were erected there. Sadly many of us also remember the tragedy from around 1970, when a young woman pedestrian was killed on the corner with Monks Road when a lorry shed it's load of timber. There was a notorious camber on the road there, and no protection for pedestrians on that exposed corner. I believe that the camber was addressed, the concrete wall we see today was erected to protect pedestrians, and vehicles carrying flammable loads were banned from the hill entirely, a ban that remains in place today. One death from a lost load of wood was a tragedy, but the carnage if the vehicle had been a fuel tanker could have been off the scale.

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