| Description | Press cuttings relating to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Clifton Suspension Bridge
DM216/6/1
‘Clifton Suspension Bridge one hundred years ago: how dream of years at last came to fruition’, Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror, 25 August 1936 (fragile)
DM216/6/2
‘The Suspension Bridge: Great Day 100 years ago’, on the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, including laying of the foundation stone, and interview with Mrs Mary Griffiths (aged 94), one of the first people across the Clifton Suspension Bridge after it’s opening on 8 December 1864, Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror, 27 August 1936
DM216/6/4
‘Hundred years’ span’ by Terry Coleman, on the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, including account of the Brunel Collection in the University of Bristol, The Guardian, 5 December 1964 (2 copies)
DM216/6/5-7
‘When the money ran out’, by Jeremy Brien, on the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Evening Post, 7 December 1964 (3 copies)
DM216/6/8-10
‘Three million cross in one year’, by Jeremy Brien, on the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Evening Post, 8 December 1964 (3 copies)
DM216/6/11
‘It happened 100 years ago today’, account of the celebrations of the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with 1964 photograph by Ralph Hudd showing two painters walking along the chains of the Bridge towards Clifton, [Bristol Evening Post], 8 December 1964
DM216/6/12-14
‘When Sarah Ann ‘took off ‘ and landed on mud..’, by Jeremy Brien, on the history of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Evening Post, 9 December 1964 (3 copies)
DM216/6/15-16
‘Great grandson at Brunel tribute’, account in the Bristol Evening Post, of the dinner by the Trustees of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with photograph of Sir Humphrey Brunel Nobel, by the illuminated bridge, 11 December 1964 (2 copies)
DM216/6/17
‘Brunel was ahead of ahead of his time’, article from unknown newspaper on the centenary of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with photograph of Sir Humphrey Brunel Noble and Roy Boucher by the illuminated bridge, n.d. [December 1964]
DM216/6/18
‘Tony Crofts comes up with some odd angles on Clifton Suspension Bridge’, with photographs of the chains and the anchorage chamber, probably from the Bristol Evening Post, n.d. [1964]
DM216/6/19
‘That leap across the Avon’, by Tony Croft, account from local Bristol newspaper just prior to the centenary of the opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, with illustrations of different designs, n.d. [November 1964]
DM216/6/20-21
‘Brunel’s bridge’, The Economist, 19 December 1964, reprinted in the Bristol Chamber of Commerce Journal, January 1965 (2 copies)
DM216/6/22
Reproduction of the ornate piers of the Clifton Suspension Bridge showing the sphinxes, labelled ‘Mr Brunel’s favourite design for the piers’, n.d.
DM216/6/23-25
Photocopies of articles and letters in The Bristol Evening Post on aspects of the history of Clifton Suspension Bridge, 8-14 December 1964 (3 sheets)
DM216/6/26/1-10
‘Bristol Pictorial Past’, produced by the West of England Newspapers Ltd for Mirror Group Newspapers, n.d. Colour illustrated supplement on the history of Bristol with mention of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 9 double-page sheets and a loose booklet, 1978
Green plastic folder ‘Press cuttings of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Centenary’ (DM567)
Many of these press cuttings are now in DM216/6, but there is a list of coverage, includes transcript of broadcast on the BBC Home Service Today Programme by Jack de Manio and others, 7.35am, 8.30am, 8 December 1864; transcript from BBC Television ‘Treasure House’, 5.30pm 8 December 1964; transcript from BBC Television ‘Tonight’, 6.55pm 8 December 1964; transcript from Granada Television North ‘Good Evening’, 4.50pm, 7 December 1964; transcript from BBC Radio Home Service Eye Witness, 6 December 1964; ‘News and comments’ by Peter J. Belchamber, Illustrated Bristol News, January 1964; and ‘William Vick’s legacy: the story of the Clifton Suspension Bridge’, programme by Vincent Waite, broadcast on BBC West Region, 8 December 1964; coverage in ‘The Times’ of the lit up Clifton Suspension Bridge, 8 December 1964; with two photographs of Sir Humphrey Brunel Noble at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 1964. |