Awatere Road Rail Bridge 1902 to 2007
Awatere Bridge

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Record 8/24
Copyright Marlborough Museum - Marlborough Historical Society Inc
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Collection MHS (unaccessioned) Photographs
Photographer Macey, William Henry
Description Awatere road rail bridge 1902.

Taken from the photograph: "The Awatere bridge near Seddon as it is today, photograph taken 1902. Notice the width of the road in the foreground. Copied 1963, from Brownlee album."
Photograph shows a man sitting on the wooden fence leading to the bridge entrance, several people standing on the road and some more people standing on the rail bridge.

Date on the photograph is 10.10.02. [10 October 1902.]
In later years the approaches would have been inconvenient for large trucks and would have been widened.
Year Range from 1902
Object ID 0000.900.0578
Object Name Photograph
Title Awatere Bridge
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Last modified on: December 19, 2014