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O Mac was there in 1913!

Ms Dorothy Stokes was lucky to get across the 1841 suspension bridge ...

' ... The effects of traffic far heavier and speedier than was ever contemplated by the original designer took their toll however. A number of the cross girders became badly warped and this caused the lowering of the road level in several places. These depressions were periodically filled and by the time of its demolition nearly 18 inches of stone had been placed on top of the buckle plates at the south end of the bridge. Under traffic of even a very light nature the bridge deck sagged and rose in an alarming manner and gave the impression of being in danger of imminent collapse. In the early 1930’s Professor Pierce Purcell, one of Ireland’s foremost Civil Engineers, was asked by Kerry County Council to investigate the problem of reconditioning or replacing the bridge. It was decided to replace the bridge.
Early in 1932 the bridge was declared unsafe and closed to traffic....

From - www.kenmare.ie/kenmare-item/kenmare-suspension-bridge/

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beachcomber australia I'm no engineer, but "nearly 18 inches of stone" on top of "the buckle plates" does not inspire confidence!

Carol Maddock ah sure it'll be grand

The Seminole Hotel at Lake Osceola in Winter Park, Florida opened in 1886. The hotel was a five-story, 200+ room structure and cost $150,000 to build and furnish. When completed it was the largest hotel in Florida and had more than 2,300 registered guests the first season. As wagons and carriages were the only modes of local transportation at the time guests were brought to the hotel from the South Florida Railroad train depot via a horse car that traveled on rails. It's shown in the above photo in front of the entrance. The hotel featured a 42x100 ft. formal dining room, many parlors, suites with open fireplaces, a barbershop, laundry services, and a 567 ft. long colonnaded porch.  Guests could take the elevator to view the surrounding area from the promenade on the top of the hotel. The original Seminole Hotel, above, was destroyed by fire in 1902, and the underinsured property was sold for residential lots.  A new Seminole Hotel was built on the western shore of Lake Osceola in 1913 on the eastern end of Webster Avenue that is now Kiwi Circle. The hotel sold for $250,000 in 1970 and was torn down to make way for residential development. –Excerpted  [1] [2]

Fascinating looking aircraft.