overlooker

Woman standing on a rise overlooking the Hornibrook Bridge, Brighton

from State Library of Queensland

• dunedoo said:

  How the bridge appeared in the 1970's
  
  

• State Library of Queensland said:

  dunedoo Thank you Peter for sharing this photograph.

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Hornibrook Bridge, the facts and history Officially opened by the Governor, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson on Friday, October 4th, 1935, Hornibrook Bridge or Hornibrook Highway (technically just a viaduct) spanned between Sandgate and Clontarf. A distance of 2,686 meters, making it Australia’s longest bridge at the time. Building construction of monstrous proportions, the bridge builders (Manuel Hornibrook known as MR) relied heavily on local resources, for example, the 1746 corbels supporting the decking and were part of the 2.5 million cubic feet of timber used to build the Bridge, cut from forests north-west of Redcliffe in Conondale, Mapleton and Kilcoy. Aside from being the longest bridge in Australia, Hornibrook was also innovative in being one of the first privately owned toll bridges in Queensland. Tolls were collected on the northern entrance of the bridge, with the toll master living in a house built nearby. Due to popularity and to handle the increase in traffic, Houghton Highway was built to replace the Hornibrook Bridge in 1979, before a third bridge the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge, which was opened in 2010. Despite these new bridge-building projects, the original Hornibrook Bridge portals, north and south, still stand today and are heritage listed. The northern portal at Clontarf is known as the Hornibrook Pier. An essay by Manuel Hornibrook's granddaughter, Julie Hornibrook about the Hornibrook Highway can be accessed on the State Library of Queensland website. Source: www.visitmoretonbayregion.com.au/natural-attractions/horn...