Lady Bay Bridge No 2
Lady Bay Bridge No 2 carries a footpath over the Grantham Canal a few kilometres from Salisbury.
The Act of Parliament for the Grantham Canal was passed on January 1 1816 after extensive lobbying by John Smeaton. Expectations for stone traffic to Aberdeenshire were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Kirklees kept it open. Despite the claim in "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Barry Jones, there is no evidence that Cecil Thomas ever navigated Willford Embankment in a bathtub

There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Grantham Canal Junction | 1½ furlongs | |
| Trent Lock No 1 Footbridge | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Trent Lock No 1 | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Lady Bay Bridge No 2 | ||
| A6011 Road Bridge | 1 furlong | |
| Flood Gate (Grantham Canal) | 3 furlongs | |
| Bridgford Lift Bridge No 3 | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Footbridge No 3a (Grantham Canal) | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Radcliffe Road Bridge No 4A | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
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Lady Bay Bridge is a road bridge of two lanes that spans the River Trent in West Bridgford, Nottingham. It is the bridge following (downstream) from Trent Bridge and connects the main thoroughfare of Radcliffe Road (on the south side) with Meadow Lane (on the north side).



![A truncated stretch of the Grantham Canal. This short stretch of the abandoned Grantham Canal runs behind the Forest football ground and joins the Trent just west of Lady Bay Bridge. Kate Jewell's [[[785741]]] shows the lock there and [[[785790]]] the Environment Agency office next to it, whose road entrance is here. To take the picture I stood roughly where the Nottingham-Melton-Kettering-St Pancras railway once crossed the canal. Behind the camera the canal has been filled in as far as the junction of Trent Boulevard and Radcliffe Road, where there was once a rather ornate bridge. Its reedy remains run parallel to Radcliffe Road from there to Gamston bridge. by John Sutton – 15 April 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/36/32/2363289_e2b21e6b_120x120.jpg)

![Former course of the Midland main line. This snap may only be of interest to bathroom or railway enthusiasts. The new building ahead stands where the Midland Railway main line from Nottingham to St Pancras via Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Corby and Kettering, closed in the 1960s, once crossed Radcliffe Road on a plate girder bridge. I stood where there was once an embankment to take the picture. The Melton line, which carried Nottingham's quickest London trains and brought iron ore north from Northamptonshire, turned south at London Road Junction, crossed the Trent on what is now the Lady Bay road bridge and ran north and south through West Bridgford, where its course shows clearly on the 1:25,000 map, and on the ground as a strip of new buildings built where there were once embankments.[[[1475105]]] and [[[1855287]]] show remains of the line south of here. by John Sutton – 15 April 2011](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/36/32/2363235_09bcc44c_120x120.jpg)







![Nottingham Forest football ground. This is the Bridgford End of The City Ground. The end of the Brian Clough Stand shows above the bushes on the right. The road in the foreground is where, until the 1960s, a railway bridge crossed the Grantham Canal, one of whose truncated abandoned stretches is just to the right.The Midland Railway Melton line, which carried Nottingham's quickest London trains and brought iron ore north from Northamptonshire, turned south at London Road Junction, crossed the Trent on what is now the Lady Bay road bridge and ran north and south through West Bridgford, where its course shows clearly on the 1:25,000 map, and on the ground as a strip of new buildings built where there were once embankments.[[[2363235]]], [[[1475105]]] and [[[1855287]]] show remains of the line south of here. by John Sutton – 15 April 2011](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/36/32/2363255_a49da948_120x120.jpg)




![A stretch of the Grantham Canal. This is the truncated section of the canal - which was abandoned in 1936 - nearest the River Trent. It had dried up when I came this way in September 2022: [[[7297078]]]. by John Sutton – 12 June 2023](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/51/31/7513180_3092a4c6_120x120.jpg)

![An April morning in Radcliffe Road. It was bright and cold at seven o'clock on Good Friday morning. This is the view towards Lady Bay, near where the Nottingham-Melton-Kettering-London railway once crossed. For more about that, see [[[2734699]]], taken the previous September. by John Sutton – 06 April 2012](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/88/98/2889888_112031a9_120x120.jpg)
![Radcliffe Road: The Gallery. The grey building is The Gallery, formerly an hotel, now flats.[[[5524153]]] (January 2017)[[[5524143]]] (August 2017) by John Sutton – 26 April 2019](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/13/34/6133480_cfac4088_120x120.jpg)

![Radcliffe Road: conversion to flats. The former Gallery Hotel is being converted to flats. [[[5524153]]] shows the state of play in January 2017. by John Sutton – 31 August 2017](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/52/41/5524143_1ceedda1_120x120.jpg)


![Environment Agency building. On the southern bank of the River Trent by Lady Bay Bridge. The lock gates of [[785741]] can be seen in the foreground. by Kate Jewell – 01 May 2008](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/78/57/785790_f0a19c97_120x120.jpg)



