Esperance Bridge opens at King’s Cross’s Coal Drops Yard

A red pedestrian bridge has opened over the Regents Canal linking Coal Drops Yard with the rest of the King’s Cross estate.
It’s also just a few yards from the existing wide bridge, so seems possibly superfluous, but the existing bridge is occasionally shared with road vehicles, and the pavement space was getting busy at times, so a new pedestrian bridge was commissioned.It’s also a bridge with a couple of nods to local history.
It sits pretty much on the same spot as an old ra