The title picture above shows the first iron bridge in the world, built by Abraham Darby III in 1779. It crosses the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.

Bridges

other ways of crossing obstacles

These web pages may be used for educational purposes, so long as they are not modified in any form, and are not used for commercial gain.

Any comments, or suggestions are welcome. Please e-mail Graham Dean

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Many thanks to David Cornforth of DEC_dATA for his invaluable help in putting these pages together. They were originally written to be published by David, as a !ClearView file, but, sadly, he has decided to withdraw from marketing directly to the public. His excellent clip art for Acorn & pc is available on cd-rom from Sherston Software

Thanks must also go to my own pupils at St Barnabas' C.E.P. School, Darwen, Lancashire, who were the "guinea-pigs" to first use the pages (in their !ClearView form).

Thanks also to Des Thomas, who has made helpful comments since the pages appeared on the WWW.

Many sources have been used in compiling these pages, but the following have been particularly useful:

Muir, Richar & Nina, 1986, Rivers of Britain, Bloomsbury Books, though I can no longer find this listed on Amazon.co.uk.

Univerity of Northumbria Education Dept, Construction in the Primary School - Bridges, Construction Industry Training Board (was available from C.I.T.B. Publications Dept, Bircham Newton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6RH - I would doubt if this was available any longer)

The figures relating to bridge lengths have come from the 1994 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.