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The firm supplied most or all of the bridges for the [[Great Southern of Spain Railway]] <ref>[https://www.gssr.es/companies.php] GSSR website</ref>
The firm supplied most or all of the bridges for the [[Great Southern of Spain Railway]] <ref>[https://www.gssr.es/companies.php] GSSR website</ref>


See [https://www.mot.be/webhdfs/v1/resource/RCB/26601/rcb026601.pdf here] for an illustrated catalogue showing some of the firm's bridges, frames of buildings, and lock gates. This includes the iron frame for the dome of a reading room in Liverpool, presumably the Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library.
See [https://www.mot.be/webhdfs/v1/resource/RCB/26601/rcb026601.pdf here] for an illustrated catalogue showing some of the firm's bridges, frames of buildings, and lock gates. These includes the iron frame for the dome of a reading room in Liverpool, presumably the Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library, and the iron roof frame for 'Tynemouth Aquarium' (Tynemouth Aquarium and Winter Gardens, opened in 1878, renamed Tynemouth Palace in 1898, becoming Tynemouth Plaza in 1926. It burned down in 1996 <ref>[https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/recognise-once-popular-tyneside-attraction-14417435] Chronicle Live website</ref>).


Supplied the structural ironwork for a large passenger elevator in Stockholm <ref>[[Engineering 1890/01/10]]</ref>
Supplied the structural ironwork for a large passenger elevator in Stockholm <ref>[[Engineering 1890/01/10]]</ref>

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of Hal/Halle, Belgium

Structural engineers.

The firm supplied most or all of the bridges for the Great Southern of Spain Railway [1]

See here for an illustrated catalogue showing some of the firm's bridges, frames of buildings, and lock gates. These includes the iron frame for the dome of a reading room in Liverpool, presumably the Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library, and the iron roof frame for 'Tynemouth Aquarium' (Tynemouth Aquarium and Winter Gardens, opened in 1878, renamed Tynemouth Palace in 1898, becoming Tynemouth Plaza in 1926. It burned down in 1996 [2]).

Supplied the structural ironwork for a large passenger elevator in Stockholm [3]

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  1. ↑ [1] GSSR website
  2. ↑ [2] Chronicle Live website
  3. ↑ Engineering 1890/01/10
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