Brunel's Other Bridge Bristol Swivel Bridge 2014

Brunel Swivel Bridge Project Photos October 2014

Cleaning and painting rusty areas (in progress)
Unbolt and release the centre pintle casting (in progress)
Jack up Bridge a few inches (in progress)
Free up north tail wheel (done)
Release two rotation cables (done)
Lower bridge onto its pintle and track
Free the pintle thread, rotate bridge a small amount and return to present position
Locate and obtain copies of drawings and past reports. Write a conservation plan
Seek letters of support

No experience needed, all equipment provided, and you'll get really involved in helping to save Brunel's Other Bridge.

Contact Maggie Shapland (Maggie.shapland@gmail.com) if you wish to help.

Finishing off painting inside the turntable, and the band of Engineers gathered to work out how on earth the bridge was built

Charlie came to help so we put him in a suitable small section of the turntable to clean and paint	Alessandra from English Heritage came to help so she was also given a section of the turntable to clean and paint
Alessandra was also small enough to fit inside	Geoff overseeing Alessandra
Mike Bone preferred to work on the turntable, bit more space	Graham Laucht came all the way from Birmingham where he had been doing research into Brunel. Our fame is spreading. He and David Greenfield were able to compare notes.
Bob and Martyn did some measuring and tried to work out thicknesses of metal	George Waite came along and demonstrated his grandfather's rivet hammer, and talked about his experiences as a riveter. We all learnt many tricks of the trade. He also discussed how the bridge would have been made. A magical time.
John Ditchfield demonstrated his model as to how he thought the top rounded section was made	The circle of engineers

This time graduate engineers came to help us measure the bridge. I finished the painting since it was a sunny day

Bob and Tom Aylott surveying	Mike Taylor standing with a pole
Geoff had to stand still with a pole too	Bob's turn to hold the pole
Geoff used his endoscope to peer into the bridge	All will be revealed in due course
John Cook came along to help survey too	The engineers were treated to a swing of the bridge