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Subject: Tamar Bridge is 60 today! Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:20 pm
Here's an interesting little film about it's construction and it's opening on this day 60 years ago today.
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Subject: Re: Tamar Bridge is 60 today! Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:09 pm
I thought you meant 60p.
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Subject: Re: Tamar Bridge is 60 today! Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:39 pm
seadog wrote:
I thought you meant 60p.
For the love of peppered steak slices.
Tgwu
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Subject: Re: Tamar Bridge is 60 today! Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:59 pm
My uncle also my god father, I am also named after him. I lined the route with the Royal Marines Cadets when the Queen Mother official open the bridge. I was 12 at this time.
Construction worker Victor Solway is pictured looking relaxed during a break - despite being perched some 70 metres above the River Tamar with seemingly nothing beneath him.