Widnes-Runcorn Bridge (now Silver Jubilee Bridge), River Mersey at Runcorn Gap, Cheshire: close-up of a girder with the old transporter bridge in the background Architect/Designer Mott Hay & Anderson Artist/Photographer Nairn, Ian (1930-1983) Country UK: England City Runcorn Subject Date 1961 Image Date 1962 View Exterior Medium Photoprint Library Reference AP274/20 Orientation Portrait Colour Info Black and white Credit Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections Subject Bridges ; Steel ; Rivers
NOTES: This is a compression arch suspended-deck bridge and is the largest of its type in Britain. It crosses the River Mersey at Runcorn Gap and the Manchester Ship Canal linking the towns of Widnes and Runcorn. Constructed between 1954 and 1961, it replaced Britain's first transporter bridge, later demolished, and was renamed the Silver Jubilee Bridge in 1977. It is Grade II listed.
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