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Oct 2020
Harlow Carr set to open new Friendship Bridge
A new bridge will be unveiled at RHS Garden Harlow Carr on Monday.
The bridge, which was built by Harrogate dry stone waller Neil Beasley in four months over lockdown, has been named the Friendship Bridge.
The name is in recognition of a £10,000 donation from the Friends of Harlow Carr, which paid for half of the £20,000 costs.
The Royal Horticultural Society, which is the gardening charity that owns RHS Garden Harlow Carr, paid for the other half.
The centerpiece of the design, which was drawn up by Leeds master craftsman David Griffiths, represents the head of a flower, with stone petals surrounding a central stonework arch,
The Geoffrey Smith memorial stone is positioned at one end of the bridge wall as a lasting testament to the former garden curator, who died in 2009.
Paul Cook, curator at RHS Garden Harlow Carr, said:
The new bridge was built with freshly quarried Yorkshire stone along with stone from the structure that it replaced.
Mr Beasley previously created Harlow Carr's garden entrance feature and monoliths on the corner of Crag Lane and Otley Road, which were also designed by David Griffiths.
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