The Bridge

State Library of New South Wales
The Bridge

The journey to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge would take almost 100 years. In this 5-part series, travel through history to experience the story of realising a city’s dream. The  building of the bridge was a modern marvel of its time; a feat uniting Sydney.

Episodes

  1. 03/09/2020

    TRAILER: The Gatherings Order

    In 1918-19 an influenza pandemic took an estimated 15,000 Australian lives, and millions more around the world. One hundred years on, as we grapple with COVID-19, this five-part series rakes through the archives of the State Library of NSW with historians, public health experts and scientists to trace the path of the 1918-19 pandemic. An eerily familiar story of loss, resilience and discovery in a world turned upside down.

    1 min

  2. 11/10/2018

    Episode Five: A Bridge to the World

    The Sydney Harbour Bridge is more than a harbour crossing. It’s a place of celebration, protest, adventure and inspiration.

    15 min

  3. 03/10/2018

    Episode Four: Symphony in Steel

    The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 19 March 1932 was shared by a million people. Although it was a celebration, it was not without politics and drama.

    16 min

  4. 20/09/2018

    Episode Three: Six Million Rivets

    Building the Harbour Bridge was no easy feat, taking over 8 years, 6 million hand-driven rivets, 1400 labourers and the lives of 16 people.

    17 min

  5. 12/09/2018

    Episode Two: Visions for a Bridge

    Floating bridges, swing bridges, span bridges, subaqueous bridges, even filling in the harbour were all proposals to join a growing city.

    15 min

  6. 30/08/2018

    Episode One: A City Divided

    An ever-expanding colonial city in need of a harbour crossing that would take 100 years to realise.

    13 min
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The journey to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge would take almost 100 years. In this 5-part series, travel through history to experience the story of realising a city’s dream. The  building of the bridge was a modern marvel of its time; a feat uniting Sydney.

Information

  • Creator
    State Library of New South Wales
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License by the State Library of New South Wales, 2018.
  • Show Website
    The Bridge

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