Bridging the gap for tourists.A NEW leaflet has been produced to bridge the knowledge gap for tourists visiting a historic site in Northumberland. The leaflet has been created in light of the closure last summer of the Union Chain Bridge border crossing, designed by Captain Samuel Brown This article is about the English naval officer, engineer and inventor. See Samuel Brown for other persons of the same name. Captain Samuel Brown (1776 - 13 March 1852) was an early pioneer of chain design and manufacture and of suspension bridge design and , near Horncliffe, Berwick. The leaflet has been designed by Bristol-based bridge historian Adrian Andrews and information has been supplied by Gordon Miller of the Dower House dower house Noun a house for the use of a widow, often on her deceased husband's estate , Paxton, who has spent years researching the structure. Other contributions came in the form of a painting from Horncliffe artist Tony Johnson
Tony Johnson is a former American football wide receiver. He played collegiately at Penn State football from 2000 to 2003. , and an old photograph of the occupants of the toll house. There is also information taken from Francis Cowe's 1961 Country Life article about the bridge and from a booklet produced by the Tweed Bridges Trust. The leaflet will be distributed in North Northumberland, the Borders and will also go to the Clifton Bridge Museum, the Institute of Civil Engineers and to the Brighton and Hove Hove (hōv), city (1991 pop. 65,587), East Sussex, SE England. It is a modern residential seaside resort. Museum, as Capt Samuel Brown Samuel Brown may refer to:
The leaflet has the support of Horncliffe Parish Council. Last summer, people living close to the bridge organised a petition under the heading Project 2020, acknowledging the fact the bridge will celebrate its bi-centenary in that year. |
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