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Picture relating to Mary River - titled 'Construction workers posing on the second Antigua Bridge, 1916'
Picture relating to Mary River - titled 'Construction of the second Antigua Bridge, 1916'
Picture relating to Canungra Creek - titled 'View of the Canungra Creek, ca.1916'
Picture relating to Clermont - titled 'Ruins of the traffic bridge, destroyed in the 1916 flood, Clermont'
Picture relating to Clermont - titled 'Looking south along Capella Street, Clermont, after the 1916 flood'
Picture relating to Clermont - titled 'Flood damaged Lagoon Bridge at Clermont, 1916'

Construction workers posing on the second Antigua Bridge, 1916

contributed by QldPics, taken in 1916
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The Antigua Bridge showing new girders erected outside the original girders 150' span and the method of cutting up the old girders to remove them. This was done without interruption to railway traffic. This photograph shows the original girder installed in 1895-1896 and the new Pratt girder installed in 1916-1917. The travelling gantry used in the erection of the new girders can also be seen. (Description supplied with photograph.)

This picture is also part of the following Bonzle photo collections: