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Bridge at Sayaji Baug, Vadodara, Gujarat

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Location N 22.314750

                  E 73.190683

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Span 64.01m 210feet

Width 1.83m 6 feet

 

Manufactured by Harpers Limited, Aberdeen, UK

Erected 1896, John Fleming & Co, Bombay

Evidence that this is a Harper bridge: definite

Date c1900

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Replaced by a cable stay bridge in 2016

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This was the first bridge in India, erected by Arthur Hoare of John Fleming & Co, Bombay.  The photograph shows a very elegant bridge in ornamental parkland.  The plate is that of John Fleming & Co rather than Harper, which may mean that further details may not come that way of this website.

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