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The stone bridge was constructed from limestone and sandstone in 1325, with six visible barrel arches ranging from 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) to 8 m (26 ft 3 in) wide. [3] The section of the bridge supported by the six arches is 79 m (259 ft 2 in; 86 yd 1 ft) long. [4] Wooden stalls were built on top of the stone bridge for trading goods. [5]
Many of the houses were later merged, into 91. In the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets. The three major buildings on the bridge were the chapel, the drawbridge tower and the stone gate.
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End panels are the four panels on either side of the end of a Howe truss bridge. These should be the same height as the chords, but not more. [12] The upper chord does not extend past the portal [17] (the space formed by the last four vertical posts at either end of the bridge). [20]
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American tanks arrived in Bad Kreuznach at midday 18 March 1945, unimpeded by the damage to the bridge. [5] In 1955, the town council had the remaining original span of the bridge over the Mühlenteich widened by two metres. In 1956, a concrete single-span bridge was built to replace the destroyed section which crossed the Nahe river.
Animation showing the operation of a drawbridge. A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat.In some forms of English, including American English, the word drawbridge commonly refers to all types of moveable bridges, such as bascule bridges, vertical-lift bridges and swing bridges, but this article concerns the ...
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