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Silver Street is located in the southwest of central Cambridge, England. It links Queen's Road to the west with Trumpington Street to the east. The road continues west out of central Cambridge as Sidgwick Avenue. The road crosses the River Cam on Silver Street Bridge.
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Silver Street Bridge, officially known as Small Bridge is...
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Newnham Grange (Causey/Causeway House), Darwin College, Silver Street, no. 3 Newnham History of Newnham Grange. 1672 Corporation of Cambridge granted to Richard Dickinson a 21 year lease ‘of the Armitage and void ground beyond the holt towards Newnham Mill.’ Loggan’s 1688 map shows a house standing approximately on the site of the north ...
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The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. This type of structure, technically tangent and radial trussing, is an efficient structural use of timber, and was also used for the timber suppo...
A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newtonwithout the use of nuts or bolts. Various stories relate how at some point in the past either students or fellows of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together, but were unable to work out how to hold the structure together, and were obliged...
Ruddock, Ted (1979). Arch Bridges and their Builders 1735-1835. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521090216. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
Photograph of the original 1748 model of the bridge, made by William Etheridge and still in possession by Clare College
Both small bridges were destroyed by Parliamentary troops in 1643 but rebuilt five years later. Silver Street Bridge, or Small Bridge, was built in 1841 of cast-iron, brick and stone in replacement of one described as dilapidated in 1836. The total cost was £19,56.
Silver Street Bridge is a Grade II listed building in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
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