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  1. Reports: Use for Old Bridges

    Date released
    9 Apr 1936
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    357A
    NoS ID
    006339
    Story no
    2 / 11

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Use for Old Bridges. SHOTLIST: Old Great Western Railway bridge being blown up. Shots of the explosion.

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  2. Our kind of town (1980)

    Genre
    Interview; Documentary

    This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Keith Howell and looks at the bridges on the River Thames. Basil Cracknell, author of Portrait of London River, talks about Thames bridges through...

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  3. Flyer Dives Under Thames Bridges

    Date released
    11 May 1953
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1249
    NoS ID
    018534
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flyer Dives Under Thames Bridges. DESCRIPTION: The urge to fly under Thames bridges evidently proved too much for 61 year old Major Draper. Starting with Waterloo Bridge, he went on up...

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  4. Here’s the Latest Thing in Rolling Bridges

    Date released
    5 Mar 1931
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    91A
    NoS ID
    002887
    Story no
    2 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rolling Bridges at Birkenhead. DESCRIPTION: Birkenhead indulges its pride in new addition to harbour amenities of Mersey Waterway. SHOTLIST: Crowd of men cheering at quayside, shot of a...

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  5. Here’s the Latest Thing in Rolling Bridges

    Date released
    2 Mar 1931
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    57A
    NoS ID
    000434
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rolling Bridges at Birkenhead. DESCRIPTION: Birkenhead indulges its pride in new addition to harbour amenities of Mersey Waterway. SHOTLIST: Crowd of men cheering at quayside, shot of a...

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  6. Queen visits Northern Ireland for the first time since ceasefire (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Report by Richard Jordan on the first visit of the Queen to Northern Ireland since the terrorist ceasefire, to Armagh, to open two new bridges. Correspondent Eamonn Mallie reports from Belfast and describes...

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  7. Fallen Arches: Load Tests on Masonry Arch Bridges (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Free loan (ICE) Sale (TRL only), Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (TRL)

    Shows load tests taken to collapse on eight brick and masonry arch bridges. The tests were carried out in order to study failure loads and modes of collapse of arch bridges, and thus to provide data for...

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  8. Spaghetti Bridges (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 min., 1999 sale: £22.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows civil engineering students designing, building and testing bridges made of spaghetti. The materials may be novel but the lessons are the same as for conventional materials and full-size structural...

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  9. Iron Making and Bridge Building (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Strong materials are required to make bridges, and wood or stone were replaced by iron as large blast furnaces came along. The superior tensile properties of iron allowed bridge builders to use new designs,...

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  10. Demolition of Bridges

    Date released
    3 May 1948
    Series name
    New Pictorial
    Issue no
    190
    NoS ID
    118369
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

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