- Title:
- Print showing Hotwell House and the Clifton Piers
- Object name(s):
- Brief description:
- The print shows Brunel's 'suspended traveller'. This was a basket car which hung from an iron bar and was designed to help workmen cross the gorge during construction. On 27th September 1836, Brunel made the first successful crossing. Members of the public paid a fee to travel across. The suspended traveller was in place from 1836 to 1853.
- Collection:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum
- Current reproduction location:
- http://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/print-showing-hotwell-house-and-the-clifton-piers
- Number of objects:
- One coloured print
- Object history note:
- Kindly donated to the Trust by the family of Dr A J G Dickens.
- Object name:
- Object number:
- GB 3493 120
- Object production date:
- c.1843 - 1853
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1843-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1853-12-31
- Object production person:
- Willis, W, artistHarris, J, publisher
- Other number:
- 2018-120
- Other number type:
- Accession number
- Responsible department/section:
- Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust Archives
- Text reason:
- Collection online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c137f166-92f5-3cdd-8fe6-9f17c4720bb8
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c137f166-92f5-3cdd-8fe6-9f17c4720bb8, Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, CC BY
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