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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 ...
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.
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge that connects Northern Kentucky and Ohio was closed for several hours Wednesday morning due to a bomb threat, according to Covington police and multiple ...
This covered bridge is located in Dover Township, on Monserat Ridge Road close to its intersection with Ohio State Route 685; Monserat Ridge Road also intersects with Ohio State Route 13 close by. The bridge spans Sunday Creek. This bridge is just southwest of the unincorporated community of Redtown, Ohio and northeast of the unincorporated ...
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By the time the council had met and discussed the problem the exhibition was finished but the publicity that it had generated catapulted Olley's career forward allowing him to leave the telecoms industry in 1974 and become a full-time professional painter selling his work with like- minded artists on the Armstrong Bridge, Newcastle every Sunday.