"Underneath The Arches"
The Flanagan and Allen song "Underneath the Arches" may have been influenced by the arches around the bridge. According to a TV programme broadcast in 1957, Bud Flanagan said that he wrote the song in Derby in 1927, and first performed it a week later at the Pier Pavilion, Southport.
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Famous quotes containing the word arches:
“The lean cats of the arches of the churches,
That’s the old world. In the new, all men are priests.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)