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Title:
Print showing Hotwell House and the Clifton Piers
Object name(s):
Print
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
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:
Print
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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