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One of Bristol's landmark pedestrian lifting bridges, named after an eighteenth century slave, Pero, has undergone a major repainting job using one of Nationwide Access's 62 metre truck-mount Skylift machine by contractors Ian Williams.
The bridge, which was built in 1999, links Millennium Square to Prince Street and has been built across part of the arm of the floating harbour.
The Nationwide Access machine was fully extended to span over 34 metres in order to reach all parts of the bridge, including the unusually designed horns, which double up as art sculptures and the bridge's lifting apparatus.
This is the first time the bridge has been repainted since it was built. It took four days and the work was commissioned by Bristol City Council, as part of its ongoing bridge maintenance programme across the city.
Pero was a slave born in the West Indies and owned by a Bristol sugar planter and merchant. The footbridge was named after Pero to commemorate all those African and West Indians who were enslaved in the city and taken from their homes in Africa to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
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