First Span Of New Hawkesbury Bridge (1945)

Hawkesbury River, Sydney, Australia. Title reads ’First Span of New Hawkesbury Bridge’. Several shots of the fist span of the new bridge across the Hawkesbury river floating on pontoon to be placed in position on already constructed pillars. Pillars of the new bridge are seen as the pontoon approaches them. Several shots of the old railway bridge along side the new construction with a train hardly moving along it. More shots of the span being placed on pillars beside the old bridge. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visn