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Pyrmont Bridge 1858

By
William Blackwood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a785015 / PXD 955, 13]
(Mitchell Library)

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Blackwood, William

State Library of New South Wales

Pyrmont bridge

The Pyrmont bridge was one of the most technologically advanced swing bridges in the world when it opened in 1902.

Bridges

Pyrmont Bridge 1857

Wooden pile bridge with an iron centre swing span which crossed Cockle Bay. It was demolished for the new bridge in 1899.

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Pyrmont Bridge Company

Company which built the first toll bridge linking Pyrmont with Glebe Island across Johnstons Bay which opened in 1857.

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Pyrmont

Peninsular inner-west suburb between Darling Harbour and Johnston's Bay. Quarried for its sandstone, it later became a heavily industrialised working-class enclave, then gentrified as industry declined.

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