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Complete with a picture of the first ferro-concrete bridge in this country, we lead others follow. :emoticon-0138-think


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Except it wasn’t. “The use of reinforced concrete probably started with the Homersfield Bridge over the River Waveney on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in 1870, when iron was embedded in concrete, but it was not until the first decade of the 20th Century that reinforcement, as we know it today, was introduced. This was due almost entirely to L.G. Mouchel, the UK agents for the Hennebique system. The first project in the UK was an 18ft span bridge at Chewton Glen in Hampshire in 1902, followed two years later by a 40ft span beam and slab bridge at Sutton Drain in Hull.”

Ferro concrete was invented by a bloke from Ipswich, which isn’t far from Norwich, who emigrated to the USA and built the first structure using the method there.
 
Except it wasn’t. “The use of reinforced concrete probably started with the Homersfield Bridge over the River Waveney on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in 1870, when iron was embedded in concrete, but it was not until the first decade of the 20th Century that reinforcement, as we know it today, was introduced. This was due almost entirely to L.G. Mouchel, the UK agents for the Hennebique system. The first project in the UK was an 18ft span bridge at Chewton Glen in Hampshire in 1902, followed two years later by a 40ft span beam and slab bridge at Sutton Drain in Hull.”

Ferro concrete was invented by a bloke from Ipswich, which isn’t far from Norwich, who emigrated to the USA and built the first structure using the method there.
Best get your hammer and chisel out and remove the dedication on the Hull bridge, or chip away at the date on it. :emoticon-0138-think

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used to be a bar/club a good few years back think the police raided it for drugs
You'd fit in well with the police, it was me that beeped at you on Kingswood this afternoon, when you looked all around to see who it was. In your defence you were three feet in front of my car, keep 'em peeled, blind git. :emoticon-0138-think


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North bridge is largely metal, the bridge in the foreground (the structure with the city crest on) is ferro-concrete. :emoticon-0138-think


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Purely out of curiosity, in what sense is that a bridge? It's just a flat bit of road as far as I can see. Has the structure been moved or the land around it been terraformed over the years or something?
 
Purely out of curiosity, in what sense is that a bridge? It's just a flat bit of road as far as I can see. Has the structure been moved or the land around it been terraformed over the years or something?
Where the cars are now used to be a drain which was filled in when no longer needed.
So it was actually a bridge going over water.
 
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Purely out of curiosity, in what sense is that a bridge? It's just a flat bit of road as far as I can see. Has the structure been moved or the land around it been terraformed over the years or something?
Used to bridge over a drain, the one that used to run through the middle of Bransholme.
 
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Purely out of curiosity, in what sense is that a bridge? It's just a flat bit of road as far as I can see. Has the structure been moved or the land around it been terraformed over the years or something?


YouTube Hull History Nerd - Watercourses of Hull Foredyke and Lambwath streams. The bridge is shown and described in the first couple of minutes or so.