EPW040163 ENGLAND (1932). The Suspension Bridge, Dee Bridge and Grosvenor Bridge on the River Dee and environs, Chester, 1932

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Title [EPW040163] The Suspension Bridge, Dee Bridge and Grosvenor Bridge on the River Dee and environs, Chester, 1932
Reference EPW040163
Date September-1932
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Place name CHESTER
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 340855, 365978
Longitude / Latitude -2.8852401614176, 53.187315862392
National Grid Reference SJ409660

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Agricola Tower Grade 1 - English Heritage Building ID: 452908 Castle gate-tower with chapel to first floor. Late C12/Early C13 with additions and alterations after 1302 and refacing by Thomas Harrison of 1818 with further repairs of 1923 and 1952.

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Suspension bridge - opened on 18 April 1923, replacing an earlier Victorian bridge built in 1852

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Tuesday 7th of January 2014 07:06:17 PM
Old Dee Bridge Grade 1 - English Heritage Building ID: 469829 Road bridge over River Dee. Late C14, altered 1826. Red sandstone. 7 arches Diagonal weir served Mills of Dee, later hydro-electric power station The bridge was widened, upstream, in 1826, to provide a footway, partly corbelled. The present bridge replaced earlier medieval bridges, probably of timber, and is believed to stand on the site of a Roman bridge.

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Grosvenor Bridge Grade 1 - English Heritage Building ID: 469818 Designed 1824 by Thomas Harrison, built 1827-1833 under the supervision of his pupil William Cole the younger, with Jesse Hartley as consultant; James Trubshaw contractor, at a cost of 50,000 pounds. Red and cream Peckforton sandstone ashlar. A single deep segmental 200 foot span arch across the river.

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Greenway Street, Handbridge

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