The Bell Tolls for the Toll: The Freeing of Staines Bridge

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On one heady Saturday in the March of 1871, years of campaigning to remove the toll from the bridge came to fruition, and the jubilation and frenzy that came from such a simple act tells us much of the development of local identity, civic pride and the importance of the right to roam at this vital juncture in British political history.