Worster break 8.

Above = geese on Camp House site (s.p.b.s).
Walking the Riverside footpath from Camp House into Worcester I came across a relatively new metal footbridge over the River Severn just north of the Georgian road bridge. Seeing the footbridge was called the ‘Sabrina’ bridge I wondered what the connection was between it and the 1950s ‘blond bombshell’ (Norma Ann Sykes, 1936-2016). The connection is a coincidence, in that Sabrina was the Anglo-Saxon name for the River Severn.
It seems that after Sabrina’s ‘glittering career’ declined in the 1960s and her marriage ended in 1977 she drifted into a reclusive lifestyle in Los Angeles where she had previously moved to from Blackpool. For 40 or so years she avoided men and people in general and is said to have been living in ‘squalor’ and some poverty when she died. Such is life.