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Wills' Bridge

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General Information

Function / usage: Road bridge
Other name(s): Suzhou Creek Bridge
Completed in: 1856
Status: demolished (1873)

Geographic Information & Related Structures

Location: Shanghai, China, Asia
Crossed
  • Suzhou Creek
Replaced by Garden Bridge (1873)

Technical Information

Dimensions

width 7.0 m
length 137.2 m

Materials

deck wood

Chronology

1871

Wales begins building an iron bridge, but it collapses into the creek due to poor construction. A viable replacement bridge was only opened in 1876

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Internal Information

Structure-ID: s0007628
Created: 09/01/2003
Last Updated: 27/02/2013