Bridge on the Great Sauldre

PONT ON GREAT SAULDER

Landes: « By letter to the sub-prefect of Sancerre on April 21, 1825, Marquis Dallon, Prefect of the Cher, gave every instruction to begin work on the construction of the Vailly bridge, to support the old board bridge and to prevent accidents that its oldness might cause.

In February 1828, JCR proceeded (with delay) to rebuild the Vailly bridge. Quick mischiefs are detected. In order to take account of the defects in construction, the Prefect, by order of 20 June 1828, decided that all necessary works would be reworked at the expense of the contractor. A second decree of 2 October prescribes the demolition of the four upper seats of the batteries and abutments (AD of Cher Z.1289)

Although all due diligence was required in the execution of the work, the work will only be completed much later.

In 1848, the bridge over the Grande Sauldre was in a deplorable state of old age. The city council informed the upper authority that this wooden bridge built on stone pillars in 1826 had almost not been repaired since that time, and that all loggers and guardmen needed to be renewed.

In May 1851, the parapets of the bridge, downstream, detached and fell from rot, daily, the loggers fell under the passage of the cars; part of the masonry of one of the piles crumbled.

In its meeting of 30 October 1871, the General Council decided to rebuild the Vailly bridge over the Grande Sauldre. On CGC number 11, the work will be made of iron with its two abutments and four intermediate masonry batteries.

In 1873/1874 the work was carried out. In 1874 the municipal council decided to build a drinking pot near the Vailly Bridge. This construction is « deemed necessary ».