London Bridge, pre 1990 was a double-spanning bridge connected to the mainland. The stack was created over hundreds of years, with the weaker layers toward the base being eroded away by wind and water to form the two bridges. The span closer to the shoreline collapsed unexpectedly on 15 January 1990, leaving two visitors, whilst uninjured, stranded on the outer span before being rescued by helicopter. Two coloured photographs of the London Bridge, on the Great Ocean Road. This photo was taken days before the collapse of the geological feature. The photographer walked across the bridge to the warning of her mother "if you go over there and it collapses you will be stuck. After the collapse it was renamed London Arch. london bridge, great ocean road, london bridge, peterborough, london arch, shipwreck coast, 12 apostles

A digital copy of a black and white postcard of a photograph taken of a bridge at Narbethong House in Narbethong.A digital copy of a black and white postcard of a photograph taken of a bridge at Narbethong House in Narbethong. This postcard was produced by The Rose Stereograph Company as a souvenir of Narbethong.narbethong, victoria, australia, postcard, rose series postcard, the rose stereograph company, narbethong house, wooden bridge, p. 2709

This bridge was washed away when the Springdallah Creek turned into a raging torrent November 2010.Colour photograph of a trestle bridge spanning Springdallah Creek, Linton-Piggoreet Road, Linton.bridges, trestle bridges

This bridge was washed away when the Springdallah Creek turned into a raging torrent November 2010.Colour photograph of a trestle bridge spanning Springdallah Creek, Linton-Piggoreet Road, Linton.bridges, trestle bridges

Photograph of Sir William Irvine (Lt Govenor) at the opening of Airey's BridgePhoto of Sir William Irvine (Lt. Governor) at opening of Airey Bridge. 30th December 1932aireys bridge; sir william irvine, lt govenor, 30.12.1932

A coloured photograph of the bluestone bridge which spans Deep Creek at Bulla. The photograph is taken facing upstream. The bridge was constructed in 1869 and replaced a ford crossing further downstream. Many bridges in the South West of Victoria were constructed from Bluestone basalt rock because the area is on a large volcanic plain and that rock is in abundance. A coloured photograph of the Bulla Bridge which spans the Deep Creek at Bulla. Photograph 0178 is an identical photograph tho this one.bridges, bulla bridge

This photograph is part of series depicting Allan Quinn's travels through San Francisco in 1949. This photograph is a landscape shot of the San Fransisco Oakland Bay Bridge.This is a photograph from the Allan Charles Quinn collection which is a collection of letters and photograph depicting aspects of life at sea for a young man in the era immediately following World War II.A black and white photograph of the San Francisco Bay and the Oakland Bay Bridge.Reverse: 12-11-49 handwritten in blue ink. Below this are some indecipherable marks in pencil.allan-quinn, photograph, san-francisco, bay-bridge, 1949, merchant navy

Victoria Bridge is a riveted and welded steel Warren truss bridge over the Yarra River completed in 1884 to a design by Fraser & Chase following a controversial design competition held in 1880. Funds for the bridge's construction were provided by the councils of Collingwood, Hawthorn, Kew and Richmond. The contract was awarded to Mr P. Platt. Charles Rowand was officially appointed Supervising Engineer in 1883. The winning design was based on the theoretical work of William Charles Kernot (1845-1909) who campaigned for economy in public works design and the application of scientific principles in engineering. ... The bridge was widened in 1890 by the addition of a third line of truss on new piers on the up stream side to carry horse trams. Work commenced in 1914 to convert the horse tramway to an electric tramway by the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust, part of the Trust's extension of its tramway into the eastern suburbs between 1913-18. In 1915 the bridge was further strengthened to accommodate the extra weight of electric trams and widened by the addition of two six feet cantilever footpaths. During this period the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust erected two ornamental gantries over the roadway to support overhead wires for the electric tramway. Further widening and reconditioning of the bridge took place in 1933, including the addition of four new welded trusses, two intermediate and two on the outside. The latter were supported on new cantilevered truss cross beams attached to the top of the piers. (Source: Heritage Victoria)Early and rare postcard of the Victoria Street Bridge linking Victoria Street and Barkers Road.Polychrome postcard of the Victoria Street Bridge which links Richmond and Abbotsford with Kew and Hawthorn.View from Harrison Cres embankment / former Xavier College boatshed on site of tree in foreground. / Chimney left corner - Wool Scoring Mils in Victoria St. / On horizon - Studley Villa, Studley House circa 1880s, Studley Hall / Chinese gardens to be seen behind three set of columns / M.J. Slatterypostcards -- yarra river, postcards -- bridges. -- greater melbourne (vic.), victoria street bridge

1969 2nd Phillip Island Bridge under construction. Suspension Bridge demolished early 1970 From the Jack Jenner CollectionConcrete stanchions and scaffolding of new Bridge part built.(opened 1969). Taken from other half looking towards San Remo.local history, photographs, civil engineering, bridges, phillip island bridges, black & white photograph, jack jenner collection, public construction

Two colour photographs of Bridge Street Bridge over Diamond Creek, Eltham showing bridge sub-structurebridges, diamond creek, eltham, bridge street

Two colour photographs of Bridge Street Bridge over Diamond Creek, Eltham showing bridge sub-structurebridges, diamond creek, eltham, bridge street

Walter Withers was a significant Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists. In 1903 Withers bought 'Southernwood', a house on 2½ acres (1 ha) at Eltham, to which he added a studio. Because of ill health, he lived during the week at his studio in Oxford Chambers, Melbourne, and on weekends and holidays with his family at Eltham until his death in 1914. The Eltham rail bridge is a unique and valuable historic relic of an earlier steam locomotive transport era in the Diamond Creek Valley and has long formed an important part of a magnificent Eltham landscape. When built in 1902 it was close to the terminus point of the Heidelberg-Eltham rail extension, on the route of the proposed Diamond Valley Railway that was then planned to continue much further up the valley towards Kinglake. This bridge is situated in attractive river-valley parkland amidst the tall and spreading manna gums and candlebarks of the Diamond Creek Valley. The Alistair Knox Park river-valley landscape, of which the timber trestle bridge is an important visual component, has been classified by the National Trust. Large manna gum and candlebark trees adorn the adjacent creek banks, and historic Shillinglaw Cottage is also part of this much-prized Eltham landscape. Eltham is home to a historic wooden railway trestle bridge. Mainly of timber-pier and timber-beam construction, but varied by a few longer steel-joists spans on timber piers at the main stream channel, this substantial bridge has almost two hundred metres of timber deck. Built in 1902, it is the only railway bridge of predominantly timber construction that is still in regular use as an integral part of Melbourne's metropolitan electric railway network and one of extremely few timber rail bridges in the State that still carry trains. Apart from its important continuing social function as a carrier of rail transport for the Hurstbridge line, this impressive bridge and its beautiful parkland environs contribute much to the character of Eltham township and that town's special reputation as an historic centre of environmental and conservation concerns. This section of the Diamond Creek Valley was the subject of a Walter Withers painting in the earliest years of the twentieth century and has strong historic links with our Heidelberg School of painters. Watercolour painting on paper of Eltham's Trestle Bridge in the middle of the day. A small section of the wooden bridge is located to the left of the painting. The focus is predominately on the wattle, manna gum and candlebark trees that is to the right of the bridge. The golden hues typically represent the australian sunlight and landscape. "W.W" in gothic script on the lower right side of the painting. Not dated. withers, eltham, trestle bridge, railway, watercolour

BRIDGE OVER CRESWICK CREEKBRIDGE OVER CREEK "BUTTER FACTORY" BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OF CAMERON ST. CLUNES.BRIDGE. CLUNES 6local history, document, postcard, bridges

Bridge over Darebin Creek, Settlement Road Bundoora. Looking west towards Thomastown, April 1967. Bridge post includes Australian Labor Party election poster for Greensborough Electorate. Bob Fell was the ALP candidate at the 1967 state election which he lost.Photographs, black and white print on paper. Bridge over Darebin Creek, Settlement Road Bundoora 1967.

Heading stock over Blue stone bridge looking up Main Street Greensborough. In this photograph, Greensborough was a country town. Note the unmade road leading up to the bridge.From the John Mackey collection. This item was displayed at the offices of Ryan, Mackey and Kelly, solicitors, Main Street Greensborough.Timber-framed photograph of herding stock over blue stone bridge looking up Main Street Greensborough, black and white.greensborough, john mackey, blue stone bridge, marble hall

Colour print of Reproduction of an oil painting - Swanston Street from Princes Bridge c1861 showing Johnson's Bridge Hotel, later Young and Jacksons, the first St Paul's church building, original Town Hall building and the tower of Scots church. Shows pedestrians and horse drawn carriages before the introduction of public omnibus services in 1869. Not known who produced the card.Yields information about early Melbourne after the start of the gold rush.Reproduction of an oil painting - Swanston Street from Princes Bridge c1861 by Henry BurnIn ink on the rear Keith Kings stamp and the initials RG and "Melbourne"melbourne, princes bridge, horse drawn vehicles, st pauls cathedral, hotels

The location of the bridge has not yet been identified but further investigations will continue, as will details of when the work was completed by Graham Hopwood.A significant images of an early local structure in Buninyong. Requires further research.Engraving of a rough old timber bridge in Buninyong by artist and art educator, Graham Hopwood.Hand written on the backing paper of the frame: 'Originally owned by JM Matheson, given to Marjorie Matheson, 1956, Olympic Games'.graham hopwood, bridges, engravings, topographical art, buninyong

Official opening of Suspension Bridge 1940. Opened by Hon. Albert Dunstan LMHCrowd on work platform. View of new Suspension Bridge at Official Opening. Priest at Lectern at middle right. local history, photographs, civil engineering, bridges, official bridge opening, black & white photograph, jack jenner collection, phillip island bridges, public construction

Original Phillip Island bridge which was replaced in 1968Large coloured photo of the first Phillip Island Bridge looking from Newhaven towards San Remo at low tide.Nilnewhaven, phillip island bridge, san remo

Construction of the Main Road bridge over the Plenty River. Includes structural members, construction personnel, vehicles and a Clarke mobile crane.Local significanceBlack and white printMarking on back of photograph - Plenty River Bridge Main Road 1969 (sic)lower plenty, main road, plenty river, bridge, bridge construction, civil engineering, cranes, mobile cranes

Photograph taken at the bottom of the hill on 'The Crescent' at Sassafras where the Crescent Bridge crosses the Sassafras Creek.Black and white cop of a photograph showing a bridge crossing an unmade road over creek. Bush in background.sassafras, sassafras creek, crescent bridge, bridge, the crescent, bush, tree ferns

During WWI some AIF soldiers were located at the Suez in Egypt.Postcard with sepia photograph of Suez canal with soldiers crossing a pontoon bridge.Verso: "POST CARD" at centre top, "Correspondence" LHS top and "Address" RHS top "No 2" in black ink handwritten on top LHS corner. Handwriting blacked out on centre. "crossing the Suez via Pontoon Bridge" in pencilsuez, soldiers, wwi, world war one, canal, pontoon bridge, holmes, anzac

1969 Phillip Island Bridge under construction. From the Jack Jenner Collection.Joining Girder between two sides of new Bridge. Part of crane shown. Men on the girder and each side.local history, photographs, civil engineering, bridges, phillip island bridge under construction, black & white photograph, jack jenner collection, phillip island bridges, public construction

On 29 November 1940, a suspension bridge opened between San Remo on the mainland and with Newhaven on Phillip Island. The 540 metre bridge had two lanes but no footpaths, instead having six pedestrian refuges. The main span was 168 metres long. The cables had previously been used on a bridge on Sydney's North Shore. Because of weight restrictions, tourist coaches had to offload their passengers. [Wikipedia]HistoricalFoolscap size photocopy of a petition to Shire of Phillip Island for a bridge to Phillip Island in 1937. Signed by 42 local residents and ratepayers.first phillip island bridge to san remo, phillip island suspension bridge, petition, odlum, ockleford, regos, mcguigan, west, mcfee, richardson, underdown, mcmaster, cleeland, neely, leeson, saunders, scott, brown, hislop, donnellan, rackham, findlay, anderson

Postcard written by Frank Wright to a friend, W. Snelling in London. Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.Black and white photograph of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. A small section of the city and water can be seen beneath the arched span of the bridge.Written in white on front - 660.B, Harbour Bridge, Sydney., Height-Top arch - 437 ft.,Width 159 ft. 11 3/4 in., Footways 10 ft. ea., Roadway 57 ft., Four Electric Rail Tracks., Length of span 1650 ft. Handwritten on back - Message to W. Snelling in London from Frank Wrightfrank wright, cornet, conductor, sydney harbour bridge

The Hepburn Springs Progress Association invited Edna Walling the the Hepburn Springs Reserve, and sandstone paths and bridges resulted. In 1934 there was a proposal to spend 2,000 to 3,000 poinds at the Hepburn Springs Reserve, with a govenrment loan suggested. Colour photograph of the stone bridge at Locarno Spring in the Hepburn Springs Reserve.hepburn springs, locarno, mineral water, hepburn springs reserve, locarno spring, edna walling

A new bridge over the Snowy River at Orbost was opened for traffic on June 20th 1922. It was designed for future joint use by road and railway traffic, but it was only used for road traffic. During the last few years the condition of an old suspension bridge [the 1893 bridge] which was the only vehicular crossing between the town of Orbost and the railway station, caused much concern. The structure was of timber, except for the wire suspension cables of its central span of about 100 feet. A design was prepared in 1914 for a permanent bridge with five spans of 85 feet composed of plate girders on concrete piers. With great increase in the price of steel work during the war, the cost of this design became prohibitive, and the need for a new structure becoming urgent, alternative proposals were investigated. As a result the present design was adopted as providing a sem-permanent bridge at moderate cost. The new bridge spans the river about 160 feet upstream from the old bridge on a slight skew, the piers being at an angle of 80 degrees with the centre line of the bridge. It has a camber of about 2 feet 5 inches in its total length of 527 feet. ( information from Newsletter March 2014 - Lois Crisp) The photograph shows Mrs James Cameron cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Orbost Pile Bridge in 1922. This second bridge, was built by the Victorian Railways and the Country Roads Board. Constructed at a cost of 35,000 pounds and used second-hand girders from the Flinders Street- Spencer Street viaduct. On July 4 1922 it was officially opened by Mrs James Cameron. Unfortunately, her husband, who had long championed the building of the bridge so that it would be ready for the railway to continue to the border, was too ill to attend the ceremony. In fact, James Cameron died on July 13 after a long and severe illness (ref. S.R.M. 20.7.1922). There is a section of this ribbon in the collection - Registration No. 366. This is a pictorial record of a significant event in Orbost's history.A black / white photograph of a pile bridge with a suspension bridge behind it. There are many people standing on the bridge.on back - "Opening of Pile Bridge - 1922"snowy-river-bridge ceremonies cameron-mrs