Brunel's celebrated bridge design across the Avon Gorge
43 matching records from the updated 653-record Brunel dataset.
Person: Vick, William · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Bristol merchant William Vick leaves one thousand pounds in his will to finance a future crossing of the Avon Gorge, establishing the bequest from which the Clifton bridge project eventually develops.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Brighton · Country: Great Britain
While recovering from his tunnel injuries Brunel develops ideas for a suspension bridge across the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel submits designs to the competition for a suspension bridge across the Avon Gorge at Clifton.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Enters the competition while still a young independent engineer.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Submits designs to the first Clifton Suspension Bridge competition.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Brunel entered the competition to build a suspension bridge spanning the gorge between Clifton and Leigh Woods.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Isambard Kingdom Brunel submits four distinct proposals to the initial competition for an Avon Gorge suspension bridge, challenging conventional assumptions about span length.
Person: Telford, Thomas · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
As a judge of the first bridge competition, Thomas Telford raises objections to proposed long suspension spans over the Avon Gorge and rejects the shortlisted schemes.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Submits revised designs in the second competition for a bridge across the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel continues promoting his Avon Gorge design after Thomas Telford rejects the first competition entries and proposes his own bridge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
A revised bridge competition considered competing proposals for crossing the Avon Gorge.
Person: Gilbert, Davies · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Davies Gilbert serves among the judges who consider the finalists in the renewed Clifton bridge competition and assess the engineering feasibility of the rival schemes.
Person: Rendel, James Meadows · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
James Meadows Rendel participates in the renewed competition for the Clifton crossing, joining other established engineers in proposing a bridge across the gorge.
Person: Seaward, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Civil engineer John Seaward judges competing proposals for the Clifton Suspension Bridge and participates in the assessment that initially places Brunel behind another entrant.
Person: Brown, Samuel · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Engineer Samuel Brown enters the renewed Clifton bridge design competition, offering a rival suspension bridge proposal to the one developed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Person: Hawkes, William · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The judges initially prefer a design by William Hawkes of the Eagle Foundry in the second Clifton competition before Brunel revises his competing proposal.
Person: Telford, Thomas · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Acts as judge during the Clifton Suspension Bridge design competition.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel secures acceptance of his revised suspension bridge design and becomes project engineer.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton · Country: Great Britain
Work begins on the Clifton Suspension Bridge, one of Brunel's earliest major independent projects.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel estimates the suspension bridge project at about fifty-seven thousand pounds, including architectural treatment of the towers.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Avon Gorge · Country: Great Britain
Brunel's accepted scheme uses a main suspension span of about 214 metres across the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Brunel's revised suspension bridge proposal was selected for the planned crossing of the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Initial work commenced on the bridge project but civil disturbances in Bristol disrupted early progress.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The unrest in Bristol undermined investor confidence and contributed to suspension of early bridge work.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel estimates the Clifton Suspension Bridge project at approximately fifty seven thousand pounds, including elaborate treatment of the towers and suspension works.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton · Country: Great Britain
Construction of Brunel's proposed suspension bridge formally begins with the laying of a foundation stone on the Clifton side of the Avon Gorge in June 1831.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel develops Egyptian inspired architectural features for the planned Clifton bridge towers, integrating monumental appearance with the proposed iron suspension structure.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel is appointed engineer for the Clifton Suspension Bridge after his revised design is selected.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
A ceremony marks the start of construction and work begins on the Clifton side of the gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction is halted after the Bristol riots damage confidence and stop subscriptions to the bridge company.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction resumes after renewed commercial confidence brings further investment to the project.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Construction resumed with a ceremony marking the foundation of the western bridge abutment.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Leigh Woods · Country: Great Britain
On 27 August 1836, the foundation stone of the Leigh Woods abutment is laid as bridge construction resumes after years of financial and political interruption.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction restarts with the foundation stone for the Leigh Woods abutment laid on the western side of the gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The main contractors fail financially, but the bridge towers are raised in unfinished stone.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Construction teams developed the masonry support at Leigh Woods for the planned suspended bridge deck.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Leigh Woods · Country: Great Britain
The company undertaking work on the Leigh Woods abutment encounters financial failure, disrupting renewed construction on Brunel's Clifton suspension bridge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Contractors continued the Clifton side tower and its supporting masonry above the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Engineers excavated and built underground anchorage structures to resist the future suspension chain loads.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Design work considered a high central suspension span supported by masonry towers and anchored iron chains.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hayle · Country: Great Britain
The Copperhouse Foundry at Hayle receives the contract to manufacture suspension chains for Brunel's Clifton bridge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The bridge project arranged manufacture of its suspension chains at the Copperhouse Foundry in Cornwall.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Brunel adopted wrought iron suspension chains to support the bridge deck across the Thames.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Chain manufacture at the Copperhouse Foundry supported the large suspension bridge projects undertaken by Brunel.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hayle · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton bridge undertaking contracts with Copperhouse Foundry in Hayle to produce suspension chains, although the project's financial difficulties later prevent their intended installation.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Leigh Woods · Country: Great Britain
The Leigh Woods masonry abutment reaches an advanced state by 1840, forming a substantial foundation for the suspension structure planned across the gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Stone towers rose above the gorge while work on abutments and chain anchorage structures proceeded.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The bridge towers, abutments and four anchor tunnels are substantially completed before the project again runs short of money.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The towers abutments and principal anchor tunnels had been substantially completed by 1842.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Masonry towers were built to support the suspension chains and the elevated pedestrian deck.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Work on the original Clifton bridge scheme produces four anchorage tunnels by 1842, alongside the towers and abutments intended to secure the proposed iron chains.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Avon Gorge · Country: Great Britain
The principal stone piers and abutments of Brunel's original design are substantially complete by 1842, despite the continued absence of a suspended roadway.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Funds are exhausted and construction stops before the chains and roadway can be completed.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction stalls because the bridge company lacks the funds needed to complete the chains and roadway.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Construction slowed dramatically when available capital proved insufficient to complete the deck and ironwork.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Workers installed or prepared the massive iron links required to suspend the bridge across the river.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
With the masonry largely finished, the Clifton bridge project still requires roughly thirty thousand pounds for remaining ironwork, a shortfall that prevents completion of the crossing.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: London · Country: Great Britain
Its chains are later reused to complete the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: London · Country: Great Britain
Completes the Hungerford Suspension Bridge across the Thames.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The bridge's standing towers showed the project's progress but the span still lacked its suspended roadway.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Material intended for the unfinished Clifton bridge is disposed of after the project loses its remaining construction funds.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel is ordered to suspend the unfinished bridge works and sell materials and plant to satisfy creditors.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Financial problems forced the project's managers to halt work and seek ways to settle outstanding liabilities.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Creditors direct Brunel to halt remaining Clifton bridge work and dispose of materials and plant in October 1851 as the undertaking struggles with its unpaid obligations.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Project materials and equipment were sold as the original construction effort came to an end.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The first construction programme stopped without completion of the bridge across the gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Iron chains originally acquired for the unfinished Clifton project are sold and subsequently used in Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash after funding for Clifton collapses.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction of the Clifton Suspension Bridge is completely abandoned.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The unfinished project remains dormant when its statutory time limit expires.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
Brunel died before the suspension bridge designed under his direction could carry passengers across the Avon Gorge.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Saltash · Country: Great Britain
Brunel combines tubular compression arches with suspension chains to create the bridge's distinctive bowstring structural system.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Following Brunel's death, John Hawkshaw joins engineering colleagues who promote completion of the unfinished Clifton crossing as a lasting tribute to its designer.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
William Henry Barlow helps revive interest in finishing the Clifton Suspension Bridge as a memorial to Brunel after the engineer dies in September 1859.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Chains from Brunel's dismantled Hungerford Suspension Bridge are purchased for use in completing the Clifton bridge.
Person: Claxton, Christopher · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Brunel supporter Christopher Claxton works to obtain parliamentary authority and financial arrangements needed to revive the Clifton Suspension Bridge undertaking.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
John Hawkshaw helps establish the organisation charged with finishing the abandoned Clifton Suspension Bridge and raising the resources required for renewed building.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Construction restarts under a revised design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
John Hawkshaw's revised completion design provides three chains on either side of the bridge in place of the two chain arrangement in Brunel's earlier scheme.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The revised Clifton bridge design associated with Barlow omits Brunel's proposed Egyptian inspired iron tower cladding, leaving the monumental masonry visible.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Hawkshaw helps restart work on the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Avon Gorge · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton construction team uses a wheeled travelling apparatus running along temporary cables to move heavy suspension links into place above the river.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Avon Gorge · Country: Great Britain
During the summer of 1863 the bridge builders stretch nine substantial cables between the towers to support working platforms, transport equipment and chain installation.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Avon Gorge · Country: Great Britain
Workers suspend a narrow planked platform over the Avon Gorge from temporary cables, allowing them to assemble the chains that will ultimately carry the roadway.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The completed structure is tested by placing about five hundred tons of stone across the bridge deck.
Person: Manby, Charles · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
On 7 November 1864 Sir Charles Manby examines the Clifton bridge for the government and reports favourably on its strength and workmanship.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton bridge is illuminated for its December 1864 inauguration with contemporary lighting techniques including limelight and magnesium flares, although strong wind disrupts the display.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
On 22 September 1864 John Hawkshaw helps show the nearly completed Clifton bridge to visiting members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Person: Hawkshaw, John · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
In early November 1864 workers distribute stone across the Clifton bridge roadway, preparing the newly constructed span for a substantial proof load test.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
At a meeting on 3 November 1864 the Clifton bridge directors determine that the formal opening will take place on 8 December after earlier dates prove impractical.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Clifton · Country: Great Britain
The completion works include cutting and finishing an approach road on the Clifton side, linking the new suspension bridge with the surrounding road network.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Engineers test the completed Clifton suspension structure under approximately five hundred tons of stone and find its resulting deflection within acceptable limits.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
On 2 July 1864 the last main cross girder is installed, completing the structural framework on which the Clifton bridge roadway is subsequently laid.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
The completed Clifton Suspension Bridge used salvaged chains from Brunel's former London crossing.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
On 8 May 1864 workers secure the final link among approximately four thousand two hundred suspension links, completing the bridge's principal supporting chains.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
On 8 December 1864 the inauguration of the Clifton bridge draws a vast crowd to Bristol as military units and local trades process through the city.
Person: Brunel, Isambard Kingdom · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens to the public as a memorial to Brunel five years after his death.
Person: Barlow, William Henry · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens to the public.
Person: VII, Edward · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The chains of the Clifton Suspension Bridge are decorated with coloured lanterns to commemorate the visit of King Edward VII to Bristol in 1908.
Person: V, George · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Clifton Suspension Bridge is illuminated to celebrate the 1911 coronation of George V and Queen Mary, continuing a tradition of public decorative lighting.
Person: V, George · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton bridge is specially illuminated during the 1925 royal visit of King George V to Bristol, using lighting to mark the occasion.
Person: Bristol Corporation · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
During Bristol French Week in 1930, electric lights in French national colours illuminate the suspension bridge, reflecting its developing role in civic festivities.
Person: V, George · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Clifton bridge illuminations use approximately three thousand bulbs for the 1935 Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V, expanding earlier electric displays.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
For the 1951 Festival of Britain, the Clifton bridge is illuminated with thousands of bulbs, making the nineteenth century landmark part of a national celebration.
Person: II, Elizabeth · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The bridge receives extensive decorative lighting for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, with illuminated chains and structures contributing to local celebrations.
Person: Atkinson, Jane · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
As a child, Jane Atkinson photographs the illuminated Clifton bridge in 1959 during events marking one hundred years since Brunel's death.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is lit with thousands of lamps in 1964 to celebrate the centenary of its original public opening.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Conservation work on Clifton's suspension structure preserved evidence of iron links originally made for Hungerford Bridge.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
An engineering inspection revealed internal vaulted chambers inside the apparently solid Leigh Woods masonry abutment.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Leigh Woods · Country: Great Britain
An inspection at the Leigh Woods end of the Clifton Suspension Bridge identifies hollow vaulted chambers inside the masonry abutment previously thought to be solid.
Person: McArthur, Dayrell · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
A modern LED lighting installation is completed on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in 2005 and 2006, reducing energy demand and avoiding excessive light pollution.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Clifton Bridge · Country: Great Britain
The bridge marked 150 years since its opening as a lasting landmark of nineteenth century engineering.
Person: Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust · Place: Hungerford · Country: Great Britain
Interpretations of Clifton Bridge's history highlighted the recycled nineteenth century suspension chains from London.
Person: Atkinson, Jane · Place: Bristol · Country: Great Britain
Jane Atkinson returns with the same photographic equipment she used in 1959 to recreate her childhood photograph of the illuminated Clifton bridge.