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Clifton Bridge, Picture 2, Edited Version, Bristol, England (UK), 2012


The Clifton Suspension Bridge is probably the most famous landmark in the Clifton area. It started as one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's earliest projects, but was not completed until 1864, five years after Brunel's death. Much of the delay was financial, as several of the sponsoring companies went bankrupt. Because it wasn't a railway bridge, it didn't benefit from the success of any of Brunel's railway companies. In fact, the opposite was true. As late as 1851, materials were taken from the Clifton project in order to build the Royal Albert Bridge on the Great Western Railway (also called the Saltash bridge). Eventually, the Clifton Bridge was completed with chains (it's a suspension bridge, but uses chains instead of cables) taken from the Hungerford Suspension Bridge into Charing Cross Station in London. At that time (1860), the Charing Cross Bridge was being rebuilt. Part of the impetus was to memorialize Brunel following his death.
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