Looking South:
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| Street View, Oct 2020 |
Looking North:
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| Street View, Apr 2017 |
The bridge spans a gorge that is 700' (213m) and 250' (76m) deep. When conceived, this bridge was the highest and longest suspension bridge in the world. [3:37 video @ 0:25]
The towers rise 86' (26m) above deck level. [BridgesOfDublin]
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Will Rogers posted Seen on a local site. Old British rail advertisement for Bristol showing a white funnel Paddler & a train on the Somerset side of the suspension bridge |
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| Clifton Suspension Bridge posted #OnThisDay [Mar 16] in 1831 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design for the CSB was formally accepted, beating 12 other proposals submitted in an open competition. Brunel's winning design originally took 2nd place, but he convinced the lead judge, Davies Gilbert, of the merits of his design and he was declared the winner two days later. He assures us in his diary that the conversation he had with Gilbert was "all fair and honest". Lisa Vincent: Do you know what the original 1st place bridge design was, and by whom? Bob Bruton: Lisa Vincent it was won by a Mr Hawks but we have no record of the design or what he said when told he would not get the contract. Bridges Now and Them shared |
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| VisitBristol "The world famous Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, although he never lived to see his creation finished in 1864." |
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| VisitBristol_story Brunel was only 23 when he won the contract for the bridge in 1831. Work started in 1836, and the two towers were completed by 1843. However, the funds dried up and "in 1853 all the ironwork that had been made for Clifton was sold off and re-used for another of Brunel’s great bridges: the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash in Devon." After Brunel's death in 1859, "the opportunity arose to recycle the chains from Brunel’s Hungerford footbridge in London which was being demolished." Work resumed in 1862 and the bridge opened to the public in 1864. "The majority of the bridge’s wrought ironwork is original and has not been replaced." |
This bridge has plenty of redundant tie-bars, unlike the Silver Bridge in Ohio that collapsed.
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| Street View, Oct 2023 |
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| 2:10 video @ 1:16 |
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