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Lansdowne Bridge
Lansdowne Bridge is a bridge located in Lansdowne, New South Wales. Designed by David Lennox in 1834 and opened in 1836, it has the largest span of any extant masonry bridge in Australia.
==History==
In 1832, the Surveyor-General at the time, Sir Thomas Mitchell, commissioned Lennox for a sum of £1083 to build a bridge at the intersection of Prospect Creek and Southern Street,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lansdowne Bridge )〕 which would be named "Bowler's Bridge" after Lansdowne's local innkeeper. The sandstone used in designing the bridge was found in a quarry only from the proposed site of the bridge, allowing workers to row a punt to transport the stone to the construction site.〔 On January 1, 1834, the foundation stone was laid. The bridge was constructed entirely by unskilled Australian convicts, despite Lennox's numerous requests to Mitchell for skilled labourers.〔 The bridge was completed a year later in 1835, and opened on January 26, 1836, the 48th anniversary of the Colony of New South Wales, before a crowd of around 1,000.〔〔 Later, Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales, wrote that the bridge had cost only £1000 to build, compared to the £7000 it would have taken to build a bridge of the same quality in England.〔
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