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Opening the bridge
The Millennium footbridge connecting
Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides. It's not like the one in
London, which
wobbles - this is much more spectacular. The whole footbridge
rises up on cables to allow shipping to pass underneath. On this
day a small French navy ship was joining its comrade on the quayside.
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Bridge beginning to lift up to let a ship through. |
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big crowd was watching from the glass viewing box in the left... |
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and also from outside the Baltic opposite. |
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the ship passing under the raised bridge. |
Then
it begins to lower again. |
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| The Bridge is almost ready for pedestrians again. | From the Tyne bridge this process supposedly looks like a giant blinking eye. | ||
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| I don't know about that, but it was still really good. Took about fifteen minutes. | |||
This page was last updated on
09/02/05