MR TYLER (your correspondent last week) will be interested to know that the Greyhound Bridge at Halton was originally sited near the present Greyhound bridge site. If he crosses the Lancaster bridge going north he will see the old piers of the former bridge on the Skerton side at the end of Lune Street. As the first 'Greyhound bridge was straight, and the second one is curved, I guess that trains could travel faster over the second bridge 'leaping the river like a greyhound'. Purists need not fret over the new bridge, which at one time was to be called the 'Princess Diana bridge'. It won't be there as long as Skerton bridge, or its predecessor, the Loyne Bridge. The problem I have is: will it wobble when I ride my bike over it and dump me in the river?

Norman Gardner

Oxford Street

Lancaster The story behind the Greyhound Bridge