I love posts like these and appreciate the time spent creating them when you get distracted by one interesting link after another and have to decide what to include and what to leave out!
I'll give you one interesting fact about these huge suspension bridges that blows my mind...
The distance between the support towers if measured at their tops is longer than if measured at the bottom....you can find out why!
Nice picture of Briggate looking well!
Best wishes to the pair of you and what a happy coincidence for me, I just happened to be up at 3am to catch your post passing through my feed :-)
PS I'm guessing a trip to the Humber Bridge just ain't gonna do it for you!