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Surname: A. A. Company Bridge, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 14 March 1863
Place: Hunter-street, Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: We were not a little pleased to learn from Mr. Alderman Corlette, that the new iron bridge intended to be thrown over Blane-street by the Australian Agricultural Company – in lieu of the present unsightly and inconvenient structure, had arrived in the colony, and might be expected in Newcastle in the course of a few days. The present level of the street is doubtless very different from the existing one when the bridge now standing was put up. Then it was rightly decided that sufficient height was permitted for all the traffic that would have to pass under it; and so it was found to be. Scarcely, at that time, did the most sanguine or prescient person anticipate in how short a period this city was to undergo great changes. …..when the formation of the streets generally necessitated the adoption of a higher level, it was found that the openings of the old bridge over Blane-street were insufficiently lofty; and great have been in the inconveniences sustained thereby. Not a few can tell of damaged hats when passing under on horse back and neglecting to do homage to the coal encrusted beams; others are to be found who will dilate on the injuries done to their furniture when a change of residence in that direction compelled transport of household goods which a short sighted drayman, in hopes of saving a trip had piled up too high; and some, unaccustomed to the locality, will relate their anything but pleasant surprise in the shape of a sharp concussion with what they thought far above their heads