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The Bridge: The Arch that Cut the Sky

The journey to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge would take almost 100 years. In this 5-part series, travel through history to experience the story of realising a city's dream. The building of the bridge was a modern marvel of its time; a feat uniting Sydney.


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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is more than a harbour crossing. It's a place of celebration, protest, adventure and inspiration.

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The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 19 March 1932 was shared by a million people. Although it was a celebration, it was not without politics and drama.

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Building the Harbour Bridge was no easy feat, taking over 8 years, 6 million hand-driven rivets, 1400 labourers and the lives of 16 people.

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Floating bridges, swing bridges, span bridges, subaqueous bridges, even filling in the harbour were all proposals to join a growing city.

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An ever-expanding colonial city in need of a harbour crossing that would take 100 years to realise.

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