| Description | Contemporary printed accounts and images
DM216/4/1
Photographic reproduction of the large scale poster announcing the programme for the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 8 December 1864 (please note that the original is oversized, and is stored in a Plan chest)
DM216/4/2
Newspaper account of the laying of the foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, on 27 August 1836, from ‘The Bristol Policeman’, no.4, Printers: Collard, Castle Mill Street, Bristol (encapsulated)
DM216/4/3
Newspaper illustration of the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge showing flags, crowds, and troops, n.d. [1864], from unknown newspaper (encapsulated) (Copy held in DM216/2/7)
DM216/4/4
‘How the proposed Suspension Bridge is to be made’, notes from unknown printed source, with engraving showing the proposed Brunel design bridge, n.d. [1820s-1840s]
DM216/4/5
Illustrated menu for centenary dinner to commemorate the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge on 8th December 1864. Dinner held at Merchants’ Hall, Bristol, 10 December 1964
DM216/4/6
Bristol Past and Present, extract dated 1845-1864, referring to the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, n.d.
DM216/4/7
Printed appeal by the Trustees of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, under the Chair of John Evans Lunell, asking the public for more investment in the funds so that the construction of the bridge can commence, and that there will be employment for workmen and labourers, 25 June 1833.
DM216/4/8/1-2
Monthly supplement of the Penny Magazine, 31 May 1832, relating to Suspension Bridges, including Clifton Suspension Bridge, with illustration of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, poor photocopy (DM729) |