New Ferntown Bridge

Travellers in the Collingwood district are being put to some inconvenience at present while the old Ferntown bridge is being dismantled and a new bridge constructed. Steel spans, each 80ft long, are being used over the 520ft-wide river.

(Pics by N. M. McLaren).

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A new span in position and part of the old wooden bridge

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Children on school buses have to walk across bridge

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Concrete slabs, each weighing 2½ ton, are being used as decking

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Well-known Collingwood personality, Claude Wilkins, laden with brooms, etc