Title

View of Sunderland and the Iron Bridge looking eastwards, 1833. Artist: Unknown

Caption

View of Sunderland and the Iron Bridge looking eastwards, 1833. This single span cast iron bridge over the Wear at Wearmouth, Sunderland, was opened in 1796. This engraving after Thomas Allom (1804-1872) shows the original bridge before its reconstruction by Robert Stephenson in 1858-1859. In the foreground trading vessels are moored at the keyside and at middle right are railway wagons bringing minerals to be loaded onto the vessel at the staithe, centre.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1833

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_255

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,9Mb) / 16,3in x 11,9in / 4887 x 3576 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation river building buildings England people event town industry metal ship ships bridge British geography railway color colour cargo quay quayside location century mineral tyne and wear wear iron Britain civil engineering sunderland moored cast iron Durham river wear industrial revolution shipping Industry 19th century water transport nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive geographical feature railway wagon TGN Wearside engraving landscape Unknown Thomas Allom;Allom Thomas;T Allom Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson quai Robert Stephenson engraving landscape