murrayriver

"The John Foord Bridge was completed in 1895, and was the last in a series of six existing metal lattice truss bridges designed by J A McDonald and constructed over the Murray River between 1887 and 1895." - www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_...

The river level looks to be in flood ...


Wahgunyah to Corowa bridge (c.1900) [SLSA: PRG 1258/2/2421]
Murray Bridge Corowa (c.1910) [SLV: H90.140/983, a01109]

pellethepoet Thanks for this info, we'll update the caption! I found another view here from National Museum of Australia AB

I have been wondering about the date - the turnstile and plinth look 1930s to me (see note).

The river appears to be flowing from right to left so the picture was taken in Victoria.

Help from our readers at the Archives Outside blog has given us c.1950 as a date. Thank you!

By the way, it's "Noreuil", named after an area in France fought over in WWI at which a number of Albury's own saw action. Here's almost the same view from 2010: in the top right you can see the round metal structure www.flickr.com/photos/gavinlang/4859093413

Immediately thought it was a remake of Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon"

this is Hume Dam

Mich The Heritage NSW website states "Bethanga Bridge was built between 1927 and 1930 as a joint venture between New South Wales and Victoria as part of the Hume Dam project..." The lake/dam came after the bridge was built. Wodonga City Council Website says: "The construction of Lake Hume Dam was completed in 1936, when it was the largest dam in the Southern Hemisphere with a shoreline of 365km and a capacity of up to three million megalitres of water." We have amended the caption to show it's Lake Hume Dam. Thank you