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Description: | 3rd May 1934.
View of bridge, built in 1840 as a toll bridge to carry the road from Hunslet to East Leeds. It was designed by George Leather, the iron casting was done at the Park iron works, Sheffield. The bridge cost ?8,750 to build. Tolls were ended in 1868. In 1994, the bridge was closed for widening and reconstruction, Birse of Doncaster were the contractors. The bridge reopened in 1995, shortly before the Royal Armouries Museum opened on Clarence Road. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Crown Point Bridge | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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