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 167,718 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.

Orange River Bridge (1895)

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1895. Basket-handle bridge on nine stone piers over Orange River, possibly at Bethulie

1896 Photo here and here.

This c.1900 photo shows the bridge after it had been destroyed in the Boer War, with a rapidly-constructed rail bridge alongside.

A later photo shows a permanent rail structure in addition to the temporary bridge c.1901 photo.


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