Paul Easton.
Completed a comprehensive 5-year City and Guilds apprenticeship in carpentry and joiner.
Bringing 50 years of industry experience.
Welcome to the desktop view of our website. Located in the town of Chepstow, Paul Easton Locksmiths provides a comprehensive lock and door maintenance service, emergency locksmith services, and garage door repairs.
Local Chepstow photographs
- By paul easton
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- 21 Sep, 2019
Local photographer Karl McCarthy
Karls work has featured in quite a few local magazines including the Wye Life Magazine
See here
http://wyelifemag.co.uk/
Chepstow Bridge is the World's largest iron arch road bridge from the first 50 years (1780-1830) of iron and steel construction. The bridge was first opened on the 24th July 1816, and is an architectural marvel and feat of engineering that has stood the test of time.
See the bridge for yourself in Chepstow and check out the fantastic views of the Lower Wye Valley and Chepstow Castle.
The Old Wye Bridge or Town Bridge at Chepstow, also known historically as Chepstow Bridge, crosses the River Wye between Monmouthsire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England, close to close to Chepstow Castle. Although there had been earlier wooden bridges on the site since Norman times, the current road bridge was constructed of Cast Iron in 1816 during the Regency Period, by John Rastrick of Brigdnorth, who greatly modified earlier plans by John Rennie.
The bridge crosses a river with one of the highest tidal ranges in the world. It carried the main A48 road between Newport and Gloucester until 1988, when a new road bridge was opened downstream alongside Chepstow railway bridge. The road bridge now carries local traffic between Chepstow and Tutshill.
It is a Grade I listed building.
Chepstow Bridge is the World's largest iron arch road bridge from the first 50 years (1780-1830) of iron and steel construction.
Of the ten largest iron arch road bridges built in the world before 1830, only Chepstow remains.
Chepstow Bridge was designed and built by John Urpeth Rastrick, a remarkable engineer who also build some of the world's first steam engines from 1806 onwards and the first steam engine to run in the USA in 1829. However, as his work was primarily not in bridge engineering, most 19th/20th century bridge writers did not report his work, resulting in the Wye Bridge being ignored for so long.
To read more about the Old Wye Bridge go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Wye_Bridge,_Chepstow
The bridge is currently closed to traffic from the Tutshill side of Chepstow due to repair work from this week for the laying of a new Gas main in St Anne street.
So expect delays if your travelling at peak times particularly in the mornings.
To some degree this will effect our ability to get to early morning emergency calls quickly on the other side of town as we are located on the Tutshill side of Chepstow so please bear with us if you require us for a emergency call out situation.
Mostly the traffic is clear after around 9.30am.
Wales & West Utilities have begun exploratory works to replace the gas main on St Ann Street and a section of Wye Bridge in Chepstow this week, with temporary road closures, traffic orders and traffic management to commence next week for a period of approximately 7 weeks.
In essence, the existing one-way system on Bridge Street, Church Road and Lower Church Street will be suspended to permit the flow of two-way traffic and also some of the existing on-street parking on Lower Church Street will be suspended to accommodate and allow vehicles to pass safely, if and when appropriate.
To keep updated on this closure go to
https://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/2019/09/various-roads-chepstow-major-gas-works-imminent/
