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Description: | This card was published by the River Wear Commissioners and shows the cost of building the Wearmouth Bridge of 1796. In total it had cost 41,800 pounds. This debt was paid off by the Commission in instalments. By November 1830 when this card was printed, they were still 25,423 pounds in debt. It must have taken them a long time to pay off completely, because the card gives their Annual Surplus Revenue for 1830 as 2,030 pounds, less than 10% of what they still owed. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | buildings and views Sunderland | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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