Editing Great Float (section)

=== Penny Bridge ===
Furthest upstream is the Penny Bridge, on Wallasey Bridge Road, which crosses the head of the pool to connect Poulton with [[Bidston]] in Birkenhead. Replacing an earlier wooden bridge of 1843, the name derives from the 1896 one [[penny]] toll to cross in one direction.<ref name="kemble">{{cite web|url=http://www.mikekemble.com/mside/wallasey1.html|title=Wallasey History (page 1)|first=Mike|last=Kemble|access-date=3 July 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722165224/http://www.mikekemble.com/mside/wallasey1.html|archive-date=22 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20021.html|title=Birkenhead Docks (photo 21)|publisher=Merseyside Views|access-date=3 July 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331094401/http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20021.html|archive-date=31 March 2008}}</ref> The bridge was replaced again in 1926<ref name="kemble" /><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20022.html |title=Birkenhead Docks (photo 22) |publisher=Merseyside Views |access-date=3 July 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404041102/http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20022.html |archive-date=4 April 2008}}</ref> and provided access to [[Bidston Dock]]. The bridge was replaced by a new swing bridge in 1996 but since the dock itself has been filled in the mechanism has fallen into disrepair through lack of use and the bridge is now effectively a static structure.