Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 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.
The nine-span masonry bridge over the River Tyne is a reconstruction of John Smeaton's first completed bridge on the site. This collapsed during a flood in March 1782, two years after completion, an event which affected the engineer deeply. He died in October that year and so did not live to see the reconstruction, which survives until this day.
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