WPW002042 WALES (1920). View of the Menai suspension bridge, Bangor, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW002042] View of the Menai suspension bridge, Bangor, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW002042
Date July-1920
Link Coflein Archive Item 6370245
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 258087, 372019
Longitude / Latitude -4.1260777865694, 53.22594875768
National Grid Reference SH581720

Pins

LNWR six-coupled locomotive engaged in shunting or assembling a goods train by a signalbox

MB
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 11:11:21 PM
Ancient-looking guard's van

MB
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 11:09:52 PM

Class31
Wednesday 24th of April 2013 03:15:10 PM
Victoria Hotel

Class31
Wednesday 24th of April 2013 03:13:25 PM

David J Roberts
Tuesday 11th of September 2012 02:02:33 PM

David J Roberts
Tuesday 11th of September 2012 02:01:13 PM
Prince's Pier. Now gone.

David J Roberts
Tuesday 11th of September 2012 01:59:44 PM
Ffordd Caergybi/Holyhead Road

Class31
Monday 16th of July 2012 12:06:58 PM
Menai Bridge Railway Station LNWR

Class31
Monday 16th of July 2012 12:05:59 PM
The only station in the UK that was in a different county to the town it served.

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Tuesday 11th of September 2012 01:58:28 PM

User Comment Contributions

The Menai Bridge was opened in January 1826 and with the Conwy Bridge, opened in July that year, these engineering achievements completed the Holyhead Road, designed by Thomas Telford, who celebrated his seventieth birthday that year. The normally imperturbable engineer suffered from sleep deprivation as he anxiously worried about the slinging of the first suspension chain across the 579 foot span. The construction is recorded by L T C Rolt in his biography 'Thomas Telford', Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1958. He also writes vividly of the first mail coach crossing the bridge after midnight on 30 January, with the wind getting up and rain on the way

MB
Tuesday 20th of August 2013 11:30:55 PM
I used to commute across this magnificent structure. It is such a wonderful picture.

Class31
Wednesday 24th of April 2013 11:04:12 AM