Re: Ha ha ha ha

Date: 2020-04-19 01:34 pm (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
In which case it's timely that I saw this yesterday.

I mean I know I'm biased but is there a finer geometric ensemble in the history of building stuff? pic.twitter.com/MxfUzu38gH

— Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) April 18, 2020



It's a picture from the Quayside at Newcastle on Tyne, the bridges are:
The Tyne Bridge (road, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a copy)
The Swing Bridge (road, rotates on battleship turret bearings - and needs to rotate because the battleship yards were upstream)
The High-Level Bridge (two decks, rail and road)
The QEII Bridge (different one, Metro light rail)
The King Edward VII Bridge (rail, just visible below the deck of the QEII)
Not shown is the Millennium Bridge (footbridge, curved, rotates vertically for vessels to pass), which the photographer is probably standing just in front of. I'm not sure it'd be possible to get a line-up with all six centred without being on a boat.
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