'The Tesco bridge'

This bridge, built a few years back and linking the Chesterton and Riverside areas of Cambridge, was always known as the Tesco bridge due to its proximity to the supermarket. But late last year it was renamed as The Equiano Bridge, after a certain Olaudah Equiano. 

Equiano (1745-1797) wrote a book, ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano’, about his experiences of enslavement and how he managed to buy his own freedom. 

There are several ties to Cambridge; he was married in nearby Soham to a Cambridgeshire woman called Susannah Cullen. One of their daughters, Anna Maria Vassa, died in childhood and is buried in St Andrews Church in Chesterton, just a couple of hundred yards from the bridge. Equiano’s own grave has been lost, and he remains relatively unknown in the city.

The chimney behind the bridge is part of what is now the Cambridge Museum of Technology; it has its own claim to fame in that the legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah scaled its heights in 1992 to carry out repairs.