Hull’s River Bridges: Millennium Swing Bridge
Millennium Bridge is a bicycle and pedestrian single leaf, fan arranged cable-stayed, bascule bridge. (Source: Structurae)
It is situated just south of where the earlier South Bridge was located and joins the Victoria Dock estate in East Hull with Victoria Pier, Humber Street and the marina in the west.
The photographs in the first gallery are by photographer Bernard Sharp. Bernard has been taking photographs of Hull for over 50 years and has given us permission to publish his work here. You can find galleries of his river and dock photographs from the 1970s in colour and black and white if you search for Bernard Sharp in the search bar at the bottom of the page. All of Bernard’s photographs on this website are used with permission © Bernard Sharp and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Photographs by Bernard Sharp
Millennium Bridge from the river by Mal Scott, 2015
Millennium Bridge opens for the Humber Keel Comrade at Open Bridges 22.09.2017 by Stuart McLelland
HMS Pickle, steered by Capt. Mal Nicholson, with Malcolm Mathison accompanying the Lord Lieutenant and an open Millennium Bridge at Open Bridges 22.09.2017 by Graeme Oxby
Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard
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