The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge: After a surprisingly long gestation, it’s path to construction threads through the history, of growth & colonial settlement in Sydney, including the political machinations at state, federal and even international levels.
And that’s before we even consider the working of more than 6 million rivets into the impressive steel structure, now recognisable as a beautiful work of engineering, which Crocodile Dundee spent his early life painting!
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Ep 20 – Sydney Harbour Bridge REFERENCES
Song: The Bridge we’ve been waiting for, by Jack Lumsdaine: https://youtu.be/glIEEIijDJQ
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Office of Environment & Heritage: NSW. Sydney basin: regional history. https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/bioregions/SydneyBasin-RegionalHistory.htm
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