Sydney Harbour Bridge

” The first proposal for a bridge was made in 1815 by former convict turned Government architect Francis Greenway. in 1825 Greenway wrote to The Australian newspaper and said a bridge would “give an idea of strength and magnificence that would reflect credit and glory on the colony and the Mother Country”

After a lengthy design debate, quoting process and the cost of the first world war, construction first started on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in July 1923. The two arches met at the centre in August 1930 and on the 19th of March 1932 the bridge was officially opened by the Premier Jack Lang.

The bridge is 134 meters tall, 503 meters long, is 49 meters wide, has around 6 million rivets made of 52,8000 tons of steel with 17,000 cubic meters of granite. Just the arch itself weighs 39,000 ton and takes 30,000 litres of paint to cover it.”

Excerpt from our Sensational Sydney Landscape Book page 31.