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The first sections of steelwork rise over Hillgate Quay, Gateshead, 10 August 1927 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/2). Most of the girders in this photograph are part of a temporary cradle used to support the first three sections of the bridge's main arch.
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
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The Forth Rail Bridge captured from beach next to North Queensferry town pier. This magnificent structure was opened in 1890 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This angle shows the full complexity of the bridges construction. Setting up for this shot I could see a rain shower approaching and just managed to grab a few images before it arrived.
Travaux de développement du réseaux de chauffage urbain de Mirecourt.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Vosges (88)
Ville : Mirecourt (88500)
The Service Reservoirs (1871 and 1882) are located adjacent to the Windmill Tower on Wickham Terrace in Spring Hill, Brisbane. Constructed as purpose-designed water storage and distribution facilities to service Brisbane's rapidly growing population in the late 19th Century, the Service Reservoirs represent both a creative and technical achievement of the Colonial era. The reservoirs constitute two mostly subterranean tanks, constructed of brick arched walls, roofed in the early 1900s and once connected by a series of pipes to the Enoggera Dam. They were the first of their kind in the state.
Aboriginal occupation of what is now the Brisbane City area was located within a close distance of freshwater streams, at the main camps at "Barrambin" (York's Hollow, now Victoria Park) and "Me-An-Jin" (Gardens Point). When European settlement was established in the area, the proximity of a sufficient water supply had a significant impact on where it was to be situated. The Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was established at Redcliffe in 1824, under the instructions of John Oxley that a suitable location would be "easy of access, difficult to escape from, and hard to attack; furthermore, it should be near fresh water and contain three hundred acres for cultivation". Only one year after settlement, the inadequacy of Redcliffe's water supply became apparent and the settlement relocated to the current Brisbane City site. Adjacent to the river, the new site allowed the collection of water from the first substantial water supply within 15miles (24.14km) of the mouth of the Brisbane River, a freshwater creek and a chain of water holes near the present Roma Street Station.
In 1826, Captain Logan arrived as Commandant and established a works program; key buildings were replaced with substantial structures made of stone and brick. Further development was encouraged by the construction of King's Wharf (1827) which allowed goods to be transferred from incoming ships. Due to this expansion of the penal settlement, by 1829 the quantity and quality of the water supply had dramatically decreased. In response, Captain Logan under the guidance of engineer and Clerk of Works, Andrew Petrie, ordered the excavation of an earthen dam across a creek near present-day Tank Street that was intended to hold up to a year's supply of water. From this dam, water was reticulated through a series of hollow ironbark logs with convict-powered pumps to a small number of buildings within Brisbane, including the prisoners' and military barracks, and the Commandant's quarters.
Brisbane experienced rapid growth after its opening for free settlement in 1842 and the population quickly rose to 812 by 1845. Water carriers charged exorbitant prices for their services and water was frequently required to be transported from Breakfast Creek at times of drought when the earthen reservoir dried up. By the 1850s the supply of freshwater became polluted from bathing, washing, and watering animals. The walls of the dam deteriorated and leaked, and in 1858 it collapsed.
The Municipalities Act 1858 tasked local councils with the obligation to control their town's water supply Brisbane's Municipal Council (formed in 1859, the same year as Queensland's separation from New South Wales) only made short-term repairs to the dam due to other priorities such as constructing roads, Municipal Headquarters, and improving drainage and sanitary conditions. The Council constructed a temporary tank on the edge of the reservoir in Tank Street and licensed water carriers to serve the people Brisbane, whose population had increased by 54% between 1856 and 1861 to 5900 people. It soon became clear that Brisbane required a much larger water supply. Tensions emerged between the Municipal Council and the Queensland Government over who was accountable for funding future systems.
Despite the strenuous debate amongst alderman regarding the best solution, and continual conflict between the Council and Queensland Government over control, the Brisbane Municipal Council made the decision in 1863 to adopt a long term solution from a report by Civil Hydraulic Engineer, Thomas Oldham. This proposal involved a gravity reticulation system to the city fed from a dam constructed at a higher elevation on Enoggera Creek. A service reservoir would be constructed near the top of Windmill Hill on Wickham Terrace, the highest suitable site near town to store water before distribution. Oldham's scheme was designed to provide a 12month water supply to 200 000 people; five times Brisbane's population at the time. The Brisbane Waterworks Act 1863 enabled the Municipal Council to construct reservoirs, supply water to the town and to charge for services but allowed the Queensland Government to influence decisions with the establishment of a Board of Waterworks.
Joseph Brady was appointed as Engineer to the Board of Waterworks and oversaw the construction of Enoggera Dam which began on the 18th of August 1864. The dam was completed by March 1866, with alterations made to reduce expenditure; pipework sizes were minimised and plans for the Wickham Terrace Service Reservoir were scrapped. By legislation, responsibility transferred to the Brisbane Board of Waterworks in August 1866, and later that month 94 chains (1.89km) of water mains reticulating to Queen, George, and Edward Streets were turned on. By 1869 reticulation to the southern side of the river was achieved. The system was the first reticulated gravity supply and the first municipal engineering undertaking in Queensland. Being the first of their kind in the colony, the Service Reservoirs at Spring Hill set a precedent for subsequent water supply schemes throughout Queensland, including places such as Ipswich, Toowoomba, Maryborough, and Rockhampton.
After complaints from Brisbane residents about mains not servicing higher areas of town and of a poor supply during peak hours, the Board of Waterworks decided to proceed with the construction of a Service Reservoir near the observatory on Wickham Terrace. Tenders were called in 1870 for the construction of a reservoir in either concrete or brick. Henry Holmes' tender was accepted specifying the use of concrete, but after preliminary excavations and the identification of cracks in concrete samples, Holmes requested to change the walls to brick and subsequently offered to withdraw his contract. The Board of Waterworks made the decision to complete the contract under its own Clerk of Works; immediately letting a contract for bricklaying and purchasing 69 000 locally produced bricks.
The first Reservoir at Wickham Terrace was completed in 1871 and was filled for the first time on the 24th of February 1871. The Reservoir was a 60ft x 30ft (18m x 9m) open-air structure, with 480mm (3 bricks) thick outer walls and arched brick internal cross-walls that divided the reservoirs into 15ft (4.5m) squares. It held 126 000 gallons (570 000 L) of water which came to a depth of 13ft 6in (4.15m). For 10hours every night, the mains were turned off and the reservoir was filled to keep up with demand for the following day. The Service Reservoir had a major effect on both the cost and the standard of living in Brisbane with the average cost of delivered water dropping from the 1866 price of 20shillings/1000gallons to just 1shilling/1000 gallons. In 1872 a tender for £36 from H Wakefield to raise the walls by 2ft (60.96cm) and increase the Reservoir's capacity was accepted and in 1876 an additional main from Enoggera Dam was laid to allow water to be reticulated to higher parts of town. Further complaints, together with a surge in Brisbane's population in the late 1870s, due to immigration, port activities, and the construction of the railway, prompted suggestions that the Reservoir had become inadequate and that a second, much larger reservoir was required to support increasing demand.
In 1882, plans were drawn for a second reservoir to be completed by the end of the year by W Innes and Son for £2797-10-0. An additional main was laid across Victoria Bridge to service the higher parts of Kangaroo Point and South Brisbane. The second Reservoir was constructed with 510mm (4 bricks) thick brick walls. The interior was divided into 15 spaces by arched brick walls; the spaces being a square shape in the central section and rectangular on the eastern and western sides. In 1889, the Board of Waterworks considered roofing both reservoirs; these additions did not take place at this time due to the leaking condition of the reservoirs, the declining reliance on them and the introduction of other water supply systems.
Only a few years after the second reservoir was constructed, other improvements were made in Brisbane's water supply system to cope with the population boom of the 1880s. This included the building of the Gold Creek Dam in 1885 - 1886, and the Highgate Hill Service Reservoir, which was of mass concrete rather than arched brick walls, in 1889. The commissioning of Mount Crosby Pumping Station in 1893 marked the decline of gravity water supply. The service reservoirs continued to only supply water to the lower parts of the city. Although the larger reservoir retained water in case of emergency, both reservoirs were removed from use between 1898 and 1906.
In 1904 - 1905 the reservoirs were recommended for reconditioning to bring them back to a usable standard. These works comprised: the reconnection with the original Enoggera main; the provision of roofs to prevent the growth of algae and to stop animals falling or being thrown in; and the installation of a spray inlet, a floating outlet, and a relief valve for the Mount Crosby supply. In July 1905 tenders were called for further works on the small reservoir, including the cement rendering of internal walls. Contractors, Maskrey and Kitchen, were approved to re-roof the reservoir for £226-6-8 including extras. After 1906, little work was completed on the Service Reservoirs apart from routine maintenance.
Along with the reservoirs, several other structures were constructed; over time these were demolished or removed. A cottage was constructed by JP Hardy in 1871 for £125 and was built to house the Inspector who was responsible for overseeing the reservoirs running day and night. The Inspector's cottage was removed from site before 1959. A second cottage was constructed in 1894 as a caretakers' house. This became the turncock's residence between 1958 and 1959, was occupied until 1976 and was vacant until destroyed by fire in 1977. A third residence was erected for the Senior Inspector in 1909 for £315-12-0. At different periods until 1958, the third residence also housed the Superintendent of Mains and Services and the turncock. The residence was considered uneconomical to repair in 1958 and was moved off the site by early 1959.
The Wickham Terrace Service Reservoirs remained an integral part of the Brisbane water supply system until the 3rd of September 1962 when the water main from Enoggera Dam collapsed and was shut down, unable to serve an increasingly high-rise inner city due to their comparatively small capacity and low elevation. Redevelopment proposals for the reservoirs during the 1980s included converting the area into an art gallery, bus exchange, restaurant, and theatre in the round.
In 2014, after two years of negotiations with the Brisbane City Council, the Brisbane based Underground Opera Company completed a $150 000 temporary fit-out to allow the staging of a series of opera performances within the space. The service reservoirs continue to serve as a visual reminder of the vital importance of a reliable, accessible, and clean water supply, as well as the technical advancements in the early development of Brisbane and Queensland.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Postcard showing the Queen Alexandra Bridge, Sunderland in the latter stages of construction, 1909 (TWAM ref. DX557/1).
This postcard is addressed to Mr & Mrs Wm Harkness, 15 Derwent Terrace, Washington Station, Washington and postmarked 6 May 1909. The message has been transcribed below:
“21 Cleveland Road
Dear Mr & Mrs Harkness,
I am almost ashamed to write to you after sending me that kind invitation but I will not be very long in coming to see you all. I am still with nursing the gentleman at Roker
love to you both
Nurse”
This set celebrates the many postcards in our collections. The people, places and events they show can give us an insight into the past, documenting the landscape, the fashions, the way we lived. Some postcards are unused but others tell us something about the people who bought them, through the messages they wrote. They can give us a fascinating glimpse into people’s lives.
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Travaux de démolition des bâtiments et silos de la Coopérative agricole de Lorraine à Mirecourt.
P R É S E N T A T I O N
Démolition : 2026
Permis de démolir n° PD 88 304 25 M0001
▻ Délivré le 30/06/2025
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Superficie du terrain : 10 905 m²
L O C A L I S A T I O N
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Vosges (88)
Ville : Mirecourt (88500)
Adresse : 241, rue Docteur-Grosjean
Fonction : Industrie
Construction of the new Hwy 44 Bridge looking toward the west from the Volusia County side of the St. Johns River. Shot in the morning fog.
Two cranes and some branches at the construction site of the new highway 44 bridge over the Saint Johns River at DeLand, Florida. The new bridge replaces the old draw bridge. Shot in digital infrared.
Construction staff of the Tyne bridge, employed by Dorman Long & Co. Ltd, 2 March 1928 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/14). The men are identified below.
standing left to right: J. Morgan (Foreman Mason), W. Kingston (Cashier), K. Addison (General Foreman), F. Conaron (Chief Timekeeper), F. Atkinson (Chief Storekeeper).
seated left to right: O.T.R. Leishman (Engineer 2), J. Geddie (Chief Assistant), J. Ruck (Agent), G.I.B. Gowring (Engineer 1), E.W.C. Symes (Engineer 3), W. Pattison (Foremen Carpenter).
seated on ground: F.D.S. Sandeman (Junior).
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
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Here are some of the massive concrete columns that hold up the carriageway decks of the M5 motorway as it passes through the Gordano Valley in North Somerset. This split-level elevated section bridges a gap in the northern escarpment of Tickenham Hill.
Photographed on the late afternoon of Tuesday 8th March 2021.
View to the west towards the 6th Street Viaduct (over the Los Angeles River) with downtown Los Angeles in the background
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When the bridge was constructed in 1932, none of the buildings in the skyline (except the low buildings in the foreground) were present
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Makes me wonder what the skyline will look like 77 years from now. The bridge probably won't be around then...
From the Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bridges18-2009feb18,0,58...
Bridge Design Sparks Clash in Los Angeles
The 6th Street Viaduct, built in 1932, features a streamline-moderne monolith of steel arches and concrete towers. Preservationists criticize the proposed spare, modern cable-stayed bridge.
By Cara Mia DiMassa and Corina Knoll
February 18, 2009
The bridges that span the Los Angeles River offer a history lesson of how Los Angeles became a modern city.
There's the Cesar Chavez Bridge, with its colossal porticoes, embellished with spiral columns and a replica of the city seal. The bridge, decorated with elements of the Spanish Baroque style, is an architectural nod to the historic El Camino Real, of which it is a part, and to the city's Spanish heritage.
The beaux-arts North Broadway Bridge, originally named the Buena Vista Viaduct, is one of the river's older structures and was the state's longest and widest concrete arch bridge when it opened in 1911.
Then there is the 6th Street Viaduct, a streamline-moderne monolith of steel arches and concrete towers built in 1932.
The city wants to replace the span with a spare, modern cable-stayed bridge. Officials released new design plans for the bridge in recent days that were met with criticism from those who say that the modern look has no place amid the ornate spans.
"I said as far as I am concerned, if you are going to put this bridge with cables there, you might as well not put a bridge there at all. I would rather not see one there," said Victoria Torres, a board member of the Boyle Heights Historical Society. "It's very disappointing when the city is trying to push something on you that you didn't agree with."
At two-thirds of a mile long, the Sixth Street Viaduct is the largest and longest span across the Los Angeles River. Known for its two sweeping steel arches and a rather notable curve in the middle, the viaduct is punctuated at either end by decorative pylons with fluted, zigzag designs. Railroad tracks run underneath on both banks of the river.
When the viaduct was built, masons used concrete from a plant that had been constructed on site at the river's edge for the building of the bridge. The practice was revolutionary at the time -- but an aggregate used in the making of the concrete caused it to have a high alkali content. As water has seeped into the concrete over time, the concrete has begun to erode. The rare degenerative condition is called alkali-silica reaction, and officials say it has weakened the viaduct to the point that officials say it has a 70% chance of collapsing in a major earthquake within 50 years. It is the only span along the river to have such a condition.
"It is an irreversible chemical erosion," said Department of Public Works spokeswoman Tonya Durrell. "We describe it as a pretty sick bridge, like a cancer."
City officials have been debating what to do about the bridge for several years, weighing three options: retrofitting it, replacing it or doing nothing. The latter made little sense, they said, because of the severity of the erosion.
After a series of public meetings over the last two years, city engineers decided that replacing the bridge was the only viable option, because retrofitting would yield a life cycle of only about 30 years. Outside of exact replication, they considered four possible designs, said Durrell, two that were modern and two that included more historical features, before recommending the cable-stayed bridge.
"Once you take down a monumental structure like the 6th Street Bridge, it was our opinion that we ought to build something state-of-the-art as opposed to a replica," said DPW engineer John Koo. A replica, he said, would cost an extra $30 million.
Philip Richardson, program manager of the DPW's bridge improvement program, said officials worry that delays over the design could result in a loss of state funding.
At the meeting where the new design was unveiled, City Engineer Gary Moore said he thought the replacement should have a "wow factor."
A model of the proposed span shows two rectangular towers in the middle of the bridge, with cables down both sides.
City officials said the tight curve on the current bridge would be straightened, and the bridge would run from one bank to the other with a much more gentle curve.
But critics said the design was a direct affront to the direction that advisory committee members had suggested to the city.
Torres, who has been a member of the 6th Street Viaduct community advisory committee, said she and others had voiced overwhelming support for an option that recreated the bridge exactly as it is now, with modern construction.
Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents the communities on both sides of the viaduct, said he favored keeping some of the historical aspects of the original bridge -- though he said he was waiting to hear community reaction about the design.
"We have very few iconic structures to begin with, but if you look at these bridges, they represent Los Angeles," he said.
Huizar used to have a paper route and would ride his bike along the 6th Street Bridge from Boyle Heights to pick up Japanese newspapers in Little Tokyo.
"I would ride my bike over the bridge beginning in the fifth grade all the way to the ninth grade, and I'd pick up the newspapers and go distribute them in Boyle Heights," he said. "I know these bridges well."
Mike Buhler, director of advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, said his organization had not yet conceded that the viaduct necessarily needed to be replaced -- though he quickly added that the organization would never advocate for an alternative that would jeopardize public safety. The organization has not yet taken a stand on the new design.
The cost of replacing the viaduct with the proposed structure is estimated to be about $345 million, officials said.
The bridges are throwbacks to a time in Los Angeles before sprawl, when linking the city center on the west side of the Los Angeles River and the bustling neighborhoods on the east side was of key importance.
The spans have become treasured historic structures and celebrated in scores of movies, including "Grease," "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "Terminator 2.
The new and old bridges over the Saint Johns River at DeLand. Shot on a rare foggy morning in east central Florida.
Portes ouvertes à la Carrière de Trapp de Raon-l'Étape lors des Journées européennes du patrimoine 2023.
Poids en ordre de marche : 104 500 kg
Capacité du godet : 10 - 14 m³
View of the Tyne Bridge in the very early stages of construction, looking from Newcastle upon Tyne over towards Gateshead, 22 March 1927 (TWAM ref. 3730/15/1).
The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was Chief Assistant Engineer on the construction of the Bridge with Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
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Capacité de la décapeuse : 28,28 m³
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
37682 is seen parked on the viaduct approach to Dewsbury Wellington Road with a Civil Engineers train.
Canon EOS 1DS
35/70mm/F2.8
60/F11
Fuji Provia 100F
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Over a 106 years old, the Egmore Railway Station in Chennai, remains one of the cities centrally located, renowned landmarks. Its bright red and white colors, and vaulted metal ceiling on the interiors are what make it striking. With typical Victorian wrought iron beams,
Arches and shapes under the McCullough bridge in North Bend, Oregon USA in mid-afternoon light. The green lattice of the center bridge section is just visible in the distance. This bridge was designed by master engineer Conde B. McCullough and was the longest structure on Oregon's highway system when it was constructed in 1936. Located on Hwy. 101 in North Bend, Oregon USA.