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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Hayle Swing Bridge

From Graces Guide
2010

in Hayle, Cornwall

1877 Reconstructed by Thomas Hughes Gibbons, replacing an old iron drawbrige.

The bridge was hydraulically raised, and turned manually via a system of gears and chains.

c.1946 Closed to shipping.

1982 Railway line closed.


See Also

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Sources of Information

  • 'Britain's Historic Railway Buildings' by Gordon Biddle, Oxford University Press, 2003