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The Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened in 1864 and provided an alternative route to Bristol ; in 1906 a swing bridge was opened to give access to Hotwells.
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The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.
** Clifton Suspension Bridge, a 1864 suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge which spans the Avon Gorge and links Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England.
A drawing of the Clifton Suspension Bridge from 1878
Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge, with Observatory, Bristol | Giants Cave
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is well known as a suicide bridge and is fitted with plaques that advertise the telephone number of The Samaritans.
* Clifton Suspension Bridge at www. ikbrunel. org. uk
* Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust papers, 1829-1939 University of Bristol Library Special Collections
* 1953 newsreel of Clifton Suspension Bridge
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Downstream of central Bristol the river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, the river is tidal and is navigable by sea going vessels at high tide but drying to a steep sided muddy channel at low tide.
* Photograph of the Clifton Suspension Bridge from Brunel Way
* Clifton Hall ( named for the Clifton Suspension Bridge )
* Bristol: Brunel's The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a famous landmark, and the ship, the SS Great Britain is another of Brunel's famous constructions, which is now in dry dock in Bristol.
It is made up of bits of driftwood which he gathered from the banks of the River Avon below Leigh Woods, near the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol.
It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge ; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species.
He was sent to Brislington, near Bristol, to recuperate ; there he heard about the competition to build what became the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
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* Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire ( 1867 )
File: Clifton Hampden Bridge ( 2 ). JPG | Clifton Hampden Bridge, Oxfordshire ( 1864 )
Brookfoot, Bailiff Bridge, Clifton, Hove Edge, Hipperholme, Lightcliffe, Rastrick
York Pullman buses operate in the village as part of the Nether Poppleton / Acomb route to York / Stamford Bridge Transdev York operate through the village as part of the Askham Bar / Acomb to Clifton Moor / Monks Cross route.
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Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.
William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.
Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.
( There never was a " Clifton ’ s Cafeteria Science Fiction Club.
A son of Harry Caswell Noland ( 1896 – 1975 ), a pathologist, and his wife, Bessie ( 1897 – 1980 ), Kenneth Clifton Noland was born in Asheville, North Carolina.
The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies was edited by Clifton, while the academic publishers AltaMira Press began release of the Pagan Studies Series.
The earliest match in CricketArchive which involved Grace was in 1859, only a few days after his eleventh birthday, when he played for Clifton Cricket Club against the South Wales Cricket Club at Durdham Down, his team winning by 114 runs.
The first time he made a substantial score was in July 1860 when he scored 51 for West Gloucestershire against Clifton ; he wrote that none of his great innings gave him more pleasure.
Afterwards, the row was patched up and Gloucestershire invited the Australians to play the county team, minus Midwinter, at Clifton College.
* December 19 The Jacobite army led by Bonnie Prince Charlie ; on retreat from Derby, was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Clifton Moor near Penrith, Cumberland.
Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.
Known as ` Peter ' to his friends and colleagues, Cleave was born in Exeter in 1906, and educated at Clifton College.
On 18 February 1890, the Northcote tramway was opened by the Clifton Hill to Northcote & Preston Tramway Company.
This was Melbourne's only non-MTOC cable tram, built by local land speculators and was operated as an independent line, feeding the Clifton Hill line.
Geoffrey Clifton was, in fact, an English spy and had intelligence about Almásy's affair with Katharine.
Clifton took the optical print and bleeped the words, meaning the words were inaudible and the film was given an appropriate rating.
Unhappy with the progress of the film, Grant had Massot removed from the project and Australian director Peter Clifton was hired in his place in early 1974.
Clifton was also annoyed at the decision to remove from the film's credits the names of all the people who had worked on editing, make up and effects.
Unlike Massot, however, Clifton was invited to both the New York and London premieres of the film.
* In 2004, the record was again broken by a group from Clifton, Queensland which used a standard Mack truck to pull 120 trailers a distance of about.
It was on the main road of Clifton, Queensland, that 70-year-old John Atkinson claimed a new record, pulled by a tri-drive Mack Titan.
It was designed in 1946 by Clifton " King of Zydeco " Chenier, and fashioned by Willie Landry, a friend and metalworker at the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
" The most successful version was written by Clifton W. Tayleur for actress Lucille Western, who was paid $ 350 a night for her performance as Isabel Vane.
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