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View in HD www.youtube.com Video Produced by Bigwallypants The Soundtrack is Somethings There by Bob Kilgore www.myspace.com Take a ride on the Lynton to Lynmouth Cliff Railway, North Devon, England. The video was recorded on 25th March 2007 Q & A Q: Who designed it? A: George Marks – believed to have been a ‘disciple’ of Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the cliff railway. He later became Baron Marks of Woolwich. Q: Who built it? A: The Majority of the funding for the railway was provided by Sir George Newnes, publisher of Tit Bits and The Strand. Sir George had a passion for Lynton & Lynmouth – and recognised the enormous tourism potential. It was this vision which led him to back not only the Cliff Railway, but also Lynton’s town Hall (1900) and the main Barnstaple to Lynton Railway (1898). Q: When did it open? A: Work began on the lift construction in 1887. It took less than three years to complete – a remarkable achievement considering the entire excavation relied on manual labour. The lift is now a listed monument and the buildings have been listed to Grade II. Q: Who runs it? A: The inaugural decent was on 9th April 1890 and it has been in operation ever since … Even during the two World Wars (although on a restricted service). An Act of Parliament formed the Lynmouth & Lynton Lift Company in 1888. A further Act of Parliament gave the company perpetual rights to the water from the Lyn Valley – The railway’s extraordinary power source. Q: What is it’s length? A …

Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing The River. (C) 1980 Bruce Springsteen
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This documentary was made in 1983 by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Part 1 of 2). It contains footage of when the twin towers were constructed from the mid 60′s through early 70′s. 20 World Trade Center Facts at 01-Apr-2002 – Courtesy of Carl Taylor, more at… www.theharrowgroup.com 1. The WTC opened in 1970 after 8 years of construction. 2. The WTC was the dream of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York. 3. The Rockefellers wanted to name the towers after themselves, but the mayor of NY, John Lindsay, insisted on the World Trade Center. 4. The City chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River. 5. The World Trade Center was designed by architect Minoura Yamasaki. 6. According to Yamasaki, downtown Manhattan was the perfect place to erect the towers because there wasn’t “a single building worth saving in the neighborhood.” 7. Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests. 8. Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC. 9. More than 10000 workers involved in building the complex. 10. More than 60 of them died during construction. 11. The excavation work displaced enough soil to create Liberty Park, where four 60-floor towers and four apartment buildings were constructed. *** Please note “Fact 11″ is disputed – YT member “opusbeme” claims it should read Battery Park City !! *** 12 …
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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The San Francisco — Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. Forming part of Interstate 80 and of the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has one of the longest spans in the world. The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, and trucks and trains on the lower, but after the closure of the Key System, the lower deck was converted to road traffic as well. After being temporarily closed on October 27, 2009 due to failure of the recently repaired eastern span, the Bay Bridge reopened on November 2. In 1986, the city of San Francisco unofficially renamed the bridge to The James “Sunny Jim” Rolph Bridge. Construction began on July 9, 1933. The western span of the bridge between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island presented an enormous engineering situation. The bay was up to 100 feet (30 m) deep in places and the soil required new foundation-laying techniques. At the time suspension bridges could not have more than two towers because of stability considerations, and a two …