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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]
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 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 ...
New York Tappan Zee Bridge: I-87 / I-287 / New York Thruway: South Nyack – Tarrytown: 1955-2017 (demolished) ... List of ferries across the Hudson River to New York ...
New Castle is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States.The population was 18,311 in the 2020 United States census, [2] an increase over 17,569 at the 2010 census. [3]
New York: New York, Bronx: Holland Tunnel: 1920, 1927 1993-11-04 New York: New York: Cast iron subaqueous tunnel Hyde Hall Covered Bridge: 1825 1998-12-17 East Springfield: Otsego: IRT Broadway Line Viaduct: 1900, 1904 1983-09-15 New York
William Armstrong was born on 26 November 1810 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a corn merchant. [4] Trained as a solicitor, he moved to London before he was twenty. Returning to Newcastle, in 1835 he met and married Margaret Ramshaw, the daughter of a build
also: Buildings and structures: by country: United States: by state: New York (state): Bridges Bridges in the U.S. state of New York (state) . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bridges in New York (state) .