Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,085 pages of information and 246,711 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Birchenough Bridge

From Graces Guide

Birchenough Bridge is across the Save River and a village next to the bridge in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). Birchenough Bridge is called after Sir Henry Birchenough who financed its construction and is buried beneath it.

Ralph Freeman, the bridge's designer, was also the structural designer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the two bridges bear a close resemblance, although Birchenough is only two-thirds as long as the Australian bridge. It was built by Dorman, Long and Co and completed in 1935 At a length of 1,080 feet (329 m) it was the third longest single-arch suspension bridge in the world at the time.

John Reginald Walker was a foreman bridge builder for Dorman Long on the project.

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