CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF NEWPORT TRANSPORTER BRIDGE 1906-2006
Written by Terry Underwood
Published by Rompdown Ltd
in 2006
ISBN: 0955164117
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- BRIDGES
- HISTORY
CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF NEWPORT TRANSPORTER BRIDGE 1906-2006
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 2140755
1st.
2006.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 0955164117. Small chip to spine. Light page edge browning. Contents are still excellent.
Front cover
Contents
- Trannies birthday
- Pendan - A Pre-history of Newport
- Newport in the past
- Floods in the 1930s
- Bridges that were flooded in Newport
- The designers of Newport Transporter Bridge
- Main events of the bridge through the years
- Building the bridge
- The opening of the bridge
- Largest ship to pass under the bridge
- Early years of the bridge
- The Duke of York crossing the bridge
- Checking the structure
- Early years continued
- Visitors to the bridge
- Views of the bridge
- Falcon Hildred
- The Trannie talks
- Fund raising events held at the bridge
- The workers of Newport transporter Bridge
- Desmond Llewelyn o- Patron
- Jaimie Baulch - Patron
- The formation of FONTB
- Events at the bridge
- The matchstick model of the bridge
- Views of the bridge
- Cycling over the bridge
- Abseiling on the bridge
- Flight to Freedom
- Hayley Mills
- The bridge at night
- Goodnight Trannie