SYDNEY'S GREAT BRIDGE
PROGRESS OF THE WORK Tho work of building the massive Sydney Harbor bridge is necessarily a slow job. Now that tho task of erecting tho span on the city end of tho bridge is in progress, the crowds of people who in Sydney never seem to have any necessity to work, and whoso chief delight appears to be in watching others work, are filling in their time pleasantly by watching the hugo cranes, 'perched two or three hundred feet above ground, lifting 20-ton pieces of steelwork as if they wero timber battens. The first span now in course of- construction will be 238 ft. in length.
Consequent upon the construct ion of the city approaches to the bridge, 000 people in what is known as the historic Rocks area—a place of sinister meaning at night before it was cleaned up and graced by a good class of house—will have to find homes elsewhere. Many families who have resided in the locality for half a century or more will have to pack up. The bridge will mean practically the passing of the Rocks area, just as it has witnessed the offaeement of Milson's Point, on the other side of the harbor, and the obliteration there of many well-established businesses. There are not a few people in Sydney .who curse the day when the bridge work started, for it has involved them in pecuniary losses for which they think the Government ought to compensate them.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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246SYDNEY'S GREAT BRIDGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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