Clifton Suspension Bridge Archives

Stereoview of the Avon Gorge showing incomplete bridge in the distance

GB 3493 AA/1/S/8
Pièce
c. 1850s

Fait partie de The Adrian Andrews Collection

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Stereoview of the River Avon showing sailing boat and figure standing on the Portway

GB 3493 AA/1/S/79
Pièce
c. 1850 - 1900

Fait partie de The Adrian Andrews Collection

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Clifton Illustrated stereoview showing a man visiting the graveyard on The Avenue

GB 3493 AA/1/S/82
Pièce
c. 1850 -1894

Fait partie de The Adrian Andrews Collection

Bedford, Francis (1815 -1894), photographer

Stereoview of the Hungerford Bridge, London taken from the carriageway

GB 3493 AA/1/S/92
Pièce
c.1850 - 1860

Fait partie de The Adrian Andrews Collection

The Hungerford Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1845. When the bridge was demolished in 1860, its chains were reused to construct the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The photograph has the caption " 6875 -Perpective du Pont suspendu a Londres".

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Stereoview of the Menheniot Viaduct, Cornwall

GB 3493 AA/1/S/101
Pièce
c.1850s

Fait partie de The Adrian Andrews Collection

Reverse has text: "152. Menheniot Viaduct, Cornwall. / The height of this Viaduct, the most ornamental on the Cornwall Railway, is best seen and appreciated from the valley below. Its appearance is truly grand, stepping with gigantic strides from hill to hill, and dwarfing the tallest trees."
In 1845 the Cornwall Railway surveyed a line to link Plymouth with Truro and Falmouth, together with several branches. I K Brunel was the engineer. The viaduct at Menheniot was one of 34 timber fan viaducts built to Brunel's standard design.

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