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.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is more than a harbour crossing. It's a place of celebration, protest, adventure and inspiration.
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.
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.
Floating bridges, swing bridges, span bridges, subaqueous bridges, even filling in the harbour were all proposals to join a growing city.
An ever-expanding colonial city in need of a harbour crossing that would take 100 years to realise.