WEARMOUTH BRIDGE - List Entry
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Description
"Road bridge with adjacent steps at NE. 1929. By Mott, Hay & Anderson, resident engineer GL Groves, contractor Sir W Arroll & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. Abutments rock-faced sandstone, with reinforced concrete road deck and N abutment core; steel superstructure and cast-iron footpath balustrades. Parabolic 3-pinned arch, of 2 ribs with span 375 feet, and spherical bearings at hinges; K wind-bracing. Built on the site of an iron bridge built in 1793 and widened by Robert Stephenson in 1856, and incorporating some of the balustrade from the 1856 work....." -
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