trap0001 We have had this conversation some time ago on the Shard End thread. I took it as the Bailey Bridge but the photos show a different bridge. Page 55 of Shard End thread.
Yes I've seen that. I can confirm that the steel frame bridge is definitely the single lane "army bridge" (as we used to call it), the same bridge in my above now/then sequence and absolutely on Cole Hall Lane.
The foot bridge photo is labelled Lea Ford, a separate bridge a mile ir so down the river Cole as it passes under Lea Ford Road / Packington Avenue (which incidentally is the Avenue referenced by Jeff Lynne in his Mr Blue Sky lyrics).
I could post a pic of this bridge now. It's not changed much since I moved to the area in 1970.