{"id":1204,"date":"2018-10-10T21:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2018-10-10T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:54:34","slug":"8th-october-2018-bristol-spension-bridge-bob-brewton-supervisor-and-tour-guide-for-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2018\/10\/10\/8th-october-2018-bristol-spension-bridge-bob-brewton-supervisor-and-tour-guide-for-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"8th October 2018: Bristol Spension Bridge &#8211; Bob Brewton, Supervisor and Tour Guide for the Bridge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/bristol\/files\/2018\/10\/Bristol-Suspension-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1208\" src=\"\/bristol\/files\/2018\/10\/Bristol-Suspension-Bridge-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2018\/10\/Bristol-Suspension-Bridge-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2018\/10\/Bristol-Suspension-Bridge.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mr Brewton quickly explained that although Brunel had submitted several designs for the bridge and his final design in 1831 was accepted, the Bristol Riots in that year meant that building never really got started.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until after Brunel\u2019s death in 1859 that two engineers John Hawkshaw and William Henry Barlow came along with extra knowledge and know how. They took over Brunel\u2019s earlier designs and completed the building of the bridge in 1864. Although they changed the design they retained the two towers originally built by Brunel and 2 of the 3 sets of the original chains. The bridge is now owned by a charity and fees for crossing the bridge go towards maintenance. The vaults below consist of 12 caves.\u00a0 For those visiting the caves you will see two of them and emphasis was placed on wearing warm clothes and stout shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Brewton quickly explained that although Brunel had submitted several designs for the bridge and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>8th October 2018: Bristol Spension Bridge - Bob Brewton, Supervisor and Tour Guide for the Bridge. | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : 8th October 2018: Bristol Spension Bridge - Bob Brewton, Supervisor and Tour Guide for the Bridge. : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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