Title

Lansdowne Bridge.

Details

Sydney Herald, 21 January 1836, page 2, column 2

Publication date

21 January 1836

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

LANSDOWNE BRIDGE.-The new'y-erected Bridge, on the road leading from Sydney to Liverpool, named by Sir Richard Bourke, on laying the first stone, "Lansdowne Bridge," is now compiled, and will be opened to the public, in form, by His Excellency, on the 26th instant, - the forty-eighth anniversary of the foundation of the Colony. We shall, at all times, be found as ready to commend as to censure the acts, even of the present Government, when a subject of commendation presents itself, and in that spirit of candour we now feel it our duty to say (despite of its Whig appellation) that Lansdowne Bridge, reflects credit, in every respect, upon those by whom it was planned and executed. We have to ack[break in text] which we subjoin, for the information of such of our readers as may not have an opportunity of being present at the ceremony of the opening:-

LANSDOWNE BRIDGE,
Designed by Mr. David Lennox, Superintendent
of Bridges, in Australia, and erected under
his direction, by Convict labour, at an
expense to the Colony of little
more than One Thousand
Pounds.
The first stone laid the 1st January, ]834; the Bridge opened to the Public on the forty eighth anniversary of the Colony, January 26th, 1836.
Span of the arch one hundred and ten feet; height from low water mark to the key-stone, thirty feet; length of the Bridge, one hundred and ninety feet; breadth, thirty feet.

[Sydney Herald, 21 January 1836, page 2, column 2].

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