#long bridge

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Crossing Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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Long Bridge over the Mississippi

[citizen69]

Schomberg's troops crossing the Long Bridge, Belfast in 1689 on the way to the Boyne (main pic). 

The Long Bridge was the original bridge to cross the Lagan at Belfast. It was built in 1682 and dismantled in 1841. It is said the bridge was permanently weakened by the crossing of the Williamite army. 

‘The Compleat Irish Traveller’, published in 1788, gives the following account of the Long Bridge :–“We proceeded to Belfast, in the county of Antrim, where there is a bridge, under which the river Lagan empties itself into Carrickfergus Bay, and it is one of the most stately in the kingdom, consisting of twenty-one arches, all turned with hewn freestone raised in the hill of Scraba, of which eighteen are on the county of Down side and three in the county of Antrim, the channel dividing the two counties running through the third arch. The whole bridge, and the dead work at each end extended over the marshy grounds, is 2,562 feet long, of which the twenty-one arches take up 840 feet, and the dead work 1,722 feet. The breadth of the arched part is twenty-two feet, and of the rest nineteen. It was built at the joint expense of the two counties and cost about 8,000l. (some say 12,000l.) The foundation of it was laid about the year 1682, and it was not completely finished until the Revolution.”

All that remains of the Long Bridge is the Longbridge Stone, a lump of granite from the bridge which sits at the junction of Castlereagh Street and the Albertbridge Road.

[yotsubaandtheworld]

It’s a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg bridge ! (*ﾟﾛﾟ)

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Visual Writing Prompt #126

[carlthethoughtfulsoul]

It’s almost as if it never ends.

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[yotsubaandtheworld]

AH, it’s nice to see a little !! (゜▼゜＊）