49. Main Road Railway Bridges (within the Talbot St./Lichfield St. Conservation Area)

    This was built in the 1850s to carry the Cannock to Rugeley
    Trent  Valley railway (opened in 1859) over the two main
    roads from  Rugeley to the south and east. The two arches
    are  enduring examples of the large-scale use of brick by
    19th-century railway  engineers. Brickwork in the roof of the
    north-eastern arch  demonstrates the bricklayers' skill in
    forming the complicated  configuration of a skewed bridge.
    The fact that today it carries trains  of very much greater
    weight than those for which it was built is a  tribute to the
    skills of its Victorian engineers.
 

50. Arch Street Railway Bridge (within the Talbot St./Lichfield St. Conservation Area).

     This 1850s bridge of predominantly red brick is a
     dominant and impressive feature of the lower
     end of Arch Street, its single high arch framing
     views from both sides.

51. Victorian Letterbox (within the entrance hall of Brereton and Ravenhill Parish Hall in Ravenhill Park).






       This was made by W T Allen & Co of London and bears the letters
       VR (Victoria Regina, the Latin for Queen Victoria). It was originally
       on Brereton Road Ravenhill opposite Ravenhill Terrace.