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Historic Environment, registered park and garden, designed landscape, arts and crafts, Northumberland.
Credit: © Natural England/Hannah Rigden 2019
Ferry Terminal, San Francisco, California
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Photo by Mrs. Dale Yetter taken in the spring of 1919. This bridge was built by the Beebe Orchard Company to carry two 12-inch water flumes over the Columbia River from springs on the west side to an orchard on the east side.
A 12-foot wide roadway was later constructed between the water lines to tranport fruit. The flumes were removed in 1926 and the private toll bridge remained in use until it was replaced by the current state bridge in 1963.
The concrete towers that supported the original structure can still be seen today.
Second attempt at the bridge. Old photo could be seen in the next pages.
Taken with VIVID setting with no PP.
The bridge designed by Robert Stephenson was a conventional masonry structure which consists of 28 semicircular arches each with a 61½ foot span. The bridge is over 2,000 feet in total length, arranged in a gentle curve, with15 of the arches over low-lying land on the south side of the river and 13 over water.
To get a firm foundation for the piers in the riverbed, the builders had to drive piles of American Elm wood through 40 feet of sand and gravel to reach bedrock before the stone piers and arches could be built above. The rails are carried at a height of 120 feet above the river causing passing trains to soar high overhead.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge, which opened on 8 December 1864, spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the bridge is a grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.
The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753. Original plans were for a stone bridge, and later iterations were for a wrought iron structure. In 1831, an attempt to build Brunel's design was stopped by the Bristol riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death and completed in 1864. Although similar in size, the bridge towers are not identical in design, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs, the Leigh tower more pointed arches atop a 110-foot (34 m) red sandstone-clad abutment. Roller-mounted "saddles" at the top of each tower allow movement of the three independent wrought iron chains on each side when loads pass over the bridge. The bridge deck is suspended by 81 matching vertical wrought-iron rods.
Two men were killed during the bridge's construction; since opening it has gained a reputation as a suicide bridge. It has plaques that advertise the telephone number of The Samaritans and above the railings on the bridge there are anti-climb barriers. The Clifton Bridge Company initially managed the bridge under licence from a charitable trust. The trust subsequently purchased the company shares, completing this in 1949 and took over the running of the bridge using the income from tolls to pay for maintenance. The bridge is a distinctive landmark, used as a symbol of Bristol on postcards, promotional materials, and informational web sites. It was also used as a backdrop to several films and television advertising and programmes. It has also been the venue for significant cultural events such as the first modern bungee jump in 1979, the last ever Concorde flight in 2003 and a handover of the Olympic Torch relay in 2012.
On the far left is the "Thomas Edison Depot" where the inventor held his first job. Overlooking the depot is the sister spans of the Blue Water Bridge, Port Huron, Michigan.
city of Grand-Mere ( grand mother...) I always wanted to see the view we had at the top of this old bridge ... I climb !! ;-)
The bridge over the New River Gorge in West Virigina. The New River is actually, geologically speaking, the oldest river in North America. The bridge is as tall as the Washington Monument with 2 Statues of Liberty stacked on top of it.
Processed into black and white and noise added in photoshop, for that antique travel-photo feel.
Pedestrian Bridge over the TT Course on the Mountain section. In the background you can just make out the railway lines for the Electric Trams that take people to the summit of Snaefell.
Out for an early morning walk with my Christmas present to myself. A new to me, used lens, Canon 17-55 f2.8.
Tokyo Gate Bridge which is also known to the locals as “Dinosaur Bridge” as it looks like two T-Rex skeletons facing off with each other.
Japan Travelogue
The Forth Bridge seen illuminated from the North Queensferry side of the Firth of the Forth. This Scottish Icon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is often illuminated every night. Designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, it opened to rail traffic in 1890 and at the time the longest Cantilever Bridge in the World.