hey guys as you can see were heading to our next destination the flat bridge in
certainly one of the make us oldest bridges while it can be positively
ascertain when the speech was built it was definitely constructed after 1724
as you can see it is still one busy bridge after all those years
people who doesn't wanna pay the toll on the newly built freeway still past this
old highway Edward long describes it in his history of Jamaica printed in 1774
this bridge is flat composed of blanks on frame of timber work which rests upon
two years and two palaces projecting from the banks constructed with piles
and braces interlaced with masonry where the speech was being constructed the
sixteenth plantations in the boardwalk area were obliged to send wall slave
every fifty to work on the River Road sometimes called 16 mile walk gravel Mar
right sandstone had to be dug slaves often
lost their lives as they perform dangerous tasks in the gorge
between 881 and 1915 the floor of the beach was washed away and later reef
Lord with our grinders and buckle plates taken from the original flooring of the
main bridge the bridge was initially built without Raley's and remained so
today Carlos Park on the nearby space and walked across the bridge
there are also food sellers and we tried some of their lunch
there's a line of vehicles behind us in 1998 they installed a traffic light
on this one-way bridge to prevent any more accidents
another fun fact is flat Beach was once the mainly connecting the north in the
south of Jamaica
now let us talk about the hydration teams number one dumbest of language
many believe flat which the gathering place for the ghosts / tops on the
steeps died during the construction of the breach residents willingness to stop
issue caused the accidents there and pull the vehicles into the river when
the water turns into the color of green lizard the dump is a comic books a party
number two mermaids live in the water it is believed that mermaids or River mamas
as they called in Jamaica they be bottomless hole just below the bridge
many believe that mermaids are the reason each attempt to stop is really
the Regis Philbin futile Albert the pillars were built with dead bodies
during the construction many slave lost their lives
Jamaica's believed those bodies were used as foundation for the piers
before the gold table legend has it there is a gold table in the water under
the bridge that surfaces of the hottest days at noon in the river Lincoln blacks
tales of all Jamaica recounts a story where 24 bulls and six screaming slaves
drowned after they tried to retrieve the table under the instructions of their
plantation owner
okay guys I hope you have fun till next time bye