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 167,720 pages of information and 247,131 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.

Walton Hall Avenue Railway Bridge (Liverpool)

From Graces Guide

1930 Description of installation of replacement bridge. The new bridge was made by Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co, at their works at Dallam, to the order of T. Wrigley and Sons, Manchester. It is a through girder span, having a length of 148 ft. 6 in. width of 31 ft. 6 in., and depth of girder of 23 ft.[1]

Now used by a cycle route.

See Geograph entry.

1930 'On page 696 of Engineering, vol. cxxix (1930), we gave an illustrated description of the expeditious replacement of a railway bridge of the Cheshire Lines Committee over Walton Hall-avenue, Liverpool. The firm responsible, Messrs. Pearson and Knowles Engineering Company, Limited, Warrington, have recently carried out another similar, but even more expeditious, operation. At Carr-lane, Norris Green, Liverpool, a 500-ton steel bridge was substituted for a 100-ton structure, ....' See Utting Avenue Bridge, Norris Green (Liverpool).


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