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The (now closed to road traffic) iron-constructed Armstrong Bridge spans the south end of the Dene and hosts Jesmond Food Market every first and third Saturday of the month. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The building of a replacement road and tunnel, the Cradlewell By-pass , was the subject of a road protest camp around 1993, due to the destruction of many 200 ...
The previous bridge on the site was demolished in 1868 to enable larger ships to move upstream to William Armstrong's works. [3] The hydraulic Swing Bridge was designed and paid for by Armstrong, with work beginning in 1873. It was first used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876. [4]
It has other recreational green areas, housing, allotment gardens, and a pub. It also includes a street named 'Jesmond Vale'. The locality is a mainly wooded and grassed area between The Cradlewell and Armstrong Bridge to the north and Burnville (left side) Stratford Road (right side) leading to Stratford Grove to the South.
NJ Transit broke ground on the project in August 2022, and the new bridge is now two thirds complete. Each arch of the new bridge weighs about 5 million pounds and measures about 400 feet long and ...
Main Street Bridge (Califon, New Jersey) part of the Califon Historic District: 1887 1976-10-14 Califon: Hunterdon: Pratt truss, HAER NJ-56: Main Street Bridge (Clinton, New Jersey) part of the Clinton Historic District: 1870 1995-09-28 Clinton
The Swing Bridge in Newcastle. In 1876, because the 18th-century bridge at Newcastle restricted access by ships to the Elswick works, Armstrong's company paid for a new Swing Bridge to be built, so that warships could have their guns fitted at Elswick. In 1882 Armstrong's company merged with Mitchell's to form Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell ...
The bridge was shut down on Tuesday, blocking a highway used by thousands of Morris and Sussex county travelers every day. Temporary bridge to reopen Route 15 will take 6 weeks to build, NJ says ...
"Acquakanonk Bridge". Revolutionary War in New Jersey; Olsen, Kevin K. (2008), A Great Conveniency A Maritime History of the Passaic River, Hackensack River, and Newark Bay, American History Imprints, ISBN 9780975366776; DeLeuw, Cather and Company Engineering Science, Inc. (prepared for NJ Transit and NJDPA) (1991).