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The Lady's Bridge over Sheffield's River Don is a witness to the success of that city's steel industry, and its subsequent decline. The result has been acrimony, poverty and the formation of Pulp, with whom Richard Hawley played in their late-90s heyday. For Hawley, however, Lady's Bridge now stretches across the Mississippi where depth, sureness and lustre lie in the old mud.
Writer: Robert Bound
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