Bridging the Gap

BUCKINGHAM Community Middle School pupils have been busy building bridges in their spare time.

Year four children at the Shoreham school spent the Easter term visiting and sketching local bridges as part of their topic on rivers and then built 17 models of bridges as a homework project.

Now some of them are on show at the Marlipins Museum in Shoreham High Street, as part of a display there on the Old Shoreham Toll Bridge.

Donations are still being sought towards the 100,000 needed for the gap funding to restore the Toll Bridge which pupils Kayleigh Schiffer and Adam Plowman made models of for their project.

The bid for 240,000 of lottery funding to restore the old wooden bridge over the River Adur has now been made by West Sussex County Council and a further 50,000 will be applied for from English Heritage.

The exhibition runs at the museum until August 11.