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Tagged: Sydney Harbour Bridge

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The Bridge We've Been Waiting For
Composed by Jack Lumsdaine to celebrate the opening of the much-awaited Sydney Harbour Bridge, and performed by Len Maurice. Includes lines from 'Advance Australian Fair'. 'Folks from Manly gay, or...
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John Henry comedy sketch about Sydney Harbour Bridge
'Although the bridge is held together by a rivet, it'll have to be kept up by a tax' - a humorous talk given by comedian John Henry about the Sydney Harbour Bridge opening, circa 1932. Cover image is...
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Queen Mother loves the Harbour Bridge
'One of the wonders of our time. A magnificent monument to your progress.' The Queen Mother, in a speech upon her arrival to Australia in 1958 says that the Sydney Harbour Bridge is 'perhaps the...
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The Bridge We've Been Waiting For excerpt
Written to celebrate the opening of the much-awaited Sydney Harbour Bridge. Includes lines from 'Advance Australian Fair'. 'Folks from Manly gay, or over Mosman way. Now they can take a stroll across...
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The Bridge: construction
Construction began in 1923 and the Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed in January 1932. The greatest engineering challenge of its day anywhere on Earth, Peter Lalor, author of the book The Bridge ...
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Ticket To Sydney. Australian Colour Diary 39
Travelling around Sydney using a variety of public transport. Examines the morning traffic build-up to peak hour as workers in Sydney set out by train, ferry, bus and car for their daily work.  Made...
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Children walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge prior to opening
'Nearly 60,000 school children are being given the privilege of crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge before its opening' in March 1932. Eight-year-old Kenneth Jones stands atop one of the arches (...
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Sydney's Harbour Bridge
This short film documents the construction of one of the world's great landmarks in its various stages, and provides a fascinating glimpse of life around Sydney Harbour and Circular Quay in the 1920s...
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Sydney’s Harbour Bridge
Officially opened on 19 March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a massive engineering undertaking that transformed the city. For six years the two half-arches gradually drew closer together. A...
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Born to Be Wild by Maria Venuti and Jeanne Little
A tribute to the world of pinball parlours and motorbikes, which Maria Venuti and Jeanne Little performed on The Mike Walsh Show in 1984. The clip weaves together covers of the 1960s hits 'Born to Be...
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