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This single span iron bridge over the Thames, next to the lock keeper's cottage,
was built in 1870 and is one of the bridges used for ‘The World Poohsticks
Championships’.
The game is described in A A Milne's book "The House at Pooh
Corner", written in 1928, where Pooh Bear and his friends stood on a bridge in
the Ashdown Forest and raced twigs on the stream below.
The event was started on the Thames in 1983 by Lynn David, the former
lock-keeper at Day's Lock, as a fund raising event for the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
He put out a box of sticks and a collection box and it soon became
an annual event which takes place in March each year.
He is one of those characters who are 'timeless' 
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