Not all knowing

On gmaps, on the second roundabout mentioned at reference 1, there is something called the 'Young Street Commemorative Pillar, with a picture.

Curious, I asked Bing who could provide a picture but otherwise only came up with stuff about things like Nelson's Column and the Monument. Google was not any better. While BH explained that it was all to do with the nearby bridge over the Mole, replacing a Bailey Bridge, itself replacing a ford or something primitive like that. 

Digging deeper, Google turns up a John Young from Dorking, who was proprietor of the Duke's Head in Leatherhead at the end of the nineteenth century. Perhaps his son was mayor at the time the new bridge went through?

While copying the picture from Google included above, zoom recovers some of the inscription, something to do with some Canadian Army engineers, with Young being the name of their commander.

Then turning to the Scottish map service, I get the bit of map above, with the present stretch of the A246 running from Park Corner centre left to the end of the Leatherhead by-pass centre middle is entirely missing, together with its bridge over the Mole. Now called Young Street.

Maybe digging will continue later today. Maybe BH will be commissioned to make inquiries when she visits the Leatherhead Institute (of reference 2) tomorrow.

Unusual for both Bing and Google to let me down in this way.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/wellingtonia-32.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/06/goods-which-are-past-their-sell-by-date.html.