Conference Paper

Author

Venus, Richard

Title

The bridges of Port Adelaide

In

Transactions of the Seventh South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Adelaide, 25 May 2018

Imprint

Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, Adelaide, 2018, pp. 17-73

Abstract

In 1994, the Heritage Branch of Engineers Australia's SA Division presented a cast bronze Historic Engineering Marker to the City of Port Adelaide to recognise the significance of the last surviving piece of the old Jervois Bridge which had been demolished in 1969. At that time, the committee believed that the Jervois Bridge was the only swing bridge in South Australia; however, recent research has revealed that, not only was the Jervois Bridge not the only swing bridge in South Australia, it was not the only swing bridge in Port Adelaide - and it wasn't even the first. In total, fourteen bridges were built in the Port - four of them swing bridges and four of them other types of opening bridge - and five of them are still in service today, three of them being opening bridges. This paper traces their story and starts with trying to understand the original decisions which placed the Port where it is today.

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• Transactions of the Seventh South Australian Engineering Heritage Conference - Adelaide, 25 May 2018 edited by Venus, Richard (Adelaide: Engineers Australia, South Australia Division, 2018), 116 pp. Details