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Photo Hunt 2019 No. 24 - Arch

joe

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This week's Photo Hunt theme (June 16, 2019) : Arch

Upcoming Photo Hunt themes :
June 23 : Machine/Machinery
June 30 : Country road

The arch is a form that is found in natural landscapes, but we usually encounter it mainly in architecture. From bridges, towers, arcades and windows, to monumental buildings, the beauty and usefulness of the arch has made it a part of many cultures.
Show us what you've seen in your travels.

Two photos to start the thread, the first from Israel, the second from Italy.

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Causey Arch in County Durham
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This is the oldest surviving single arch railway bridge in Britain. It carried coal from the Tanfield collieries to the staithes on the River Tyne. In 1725-6, local stonemason, Ralph Wood was paid £12,000 to build a bridge across the wooded gorge of the Causey Burn. No one had attempted to build a single span bridge of this size before and he used Roman technology to design it, using a wooden frame to construct the bridge. Wood was so concerned that his bridge might collapse he committed suicide before it was finished. He needn’t have worried, it is still standing today. It no longer carries coal trucks but has a footpath across it.
 
Another bridge, this time the Iron Bridge in Shropshire and the first bridge in the world to be made from iron.

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The Roman Bridge in Musselburgh, Scotland; right outside the house where my Dad was born and grew up.
There is some doubt that this bridge is actually Roman; it may have been built on the site of a real earlier Roman one.


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Looking up in the New Cathedral (16th Century) Salamanca, Spain

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