Sandwiched between a builders' office and a hair salon, set back from a busy main road in Stretford , sits an extraordinary iron bridge.

Drive past and you might not even know it's there.

But its significance is writ large in the minds of fans of Manchester music legends The Smiths and frontman Morrissey.

The bridge is on King's Road in Stretford, where the young Steven Patrick Morrissey once lived. It's said that he would cross the bridge to get to school in his teenage years, connecting as it does King's Road on to Renton Road beyond.

He would later immortalise the bridge in music history, in the lyrics of The Smiths song Still ill.

In it he wrote: "Under the iron bridge we kissed/ And although I ended up with sore lips/ It just wasn't like the old days anymore /No, it wasn't li

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