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“The Bridges of Madeley County”
By the Parish Poet
An alternative explanation for the state of the High Street ….
We recently visited the set of a new film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. In this adaptation, Clint Eastwood plays a photographer researching historic bridges for a national magazine.
Using a VERY OLD MAP, taken originally by the Pilgrim Fathers to America, he locates Madeley, but finding no mention of an iron bridge on the OLD map he gets lost and finds himself photographing the unique architecture of the bridge at the bottom of Madeley High Street.
A local housewife, played by Meryl Streep, helps him out of a deep pot-hole into which he has unfortunately fallen, whilst concentrating on his photography.
Their eyes met and over the next few days there followed a brief but passionate encounter which neither forgot for the rest of their days.
Years later, her children were puzzled by a strange request contained in her will: to scatter her ashes from the Madeley Bridge. It was her way of being re-united with the photographs.
And so, dear reader, if you should pass the bottom of Madeley High Street and see a man in a pot-hole, or something drifting in the breeze from the parapet of the bridge, just go quietly about your business because filming is in progress for the ‘Bridges of Madeley County’. Lack of maintenance has absolutely nothing to do with it!
. . . Our correspondent is currently working on an alternative explanation for the corrugated shed at the rear of Madeley Shopping Malls, a fine example of niche architecture!
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