Place 25: Kissing Bridge
1958; 1984–85Covered footbridge joining Bassey Park and Derry High School. It is about 0.8 km upriver from Main Street Bridge. It is not the bridge from which Adrian Mellon is thrown.
About Kissing Bridge
Kissing Bridge is a covered pedestrian bridge across the canal between Bassey Park and Derry High School. It serves as a local connection between the public park and school grounds and remains a recognizable landmark from 1958 into the 1984–85 period. The bridge stands upriver from Main Street Bridge, separating two distinct crossings with different roles in the town. The atlas depicts a compact wooden crossing rather than treating every canal bridge as the same site.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The bridge is marked A because both endpoints—Bassey Park and Derry High School—are identified, and roughly 0.8 kilometres of canal separate it from Main Street Bridge in the downstream direction. Those facts establish the correct segment and distinguish Kissing Bridge from the road crossing associated with Adrian Mellon. The sources do not give exact landing coordinates, span length, alignment, width, or architectural measurements. The mapped crossing is reconstructed while preserving the stated order along the canal.
