2024年12月9日 · The old chain ferry linking Portsmouth and Gosport in 1900. Running from the end of Broad Street, Old Portsmouth, to Gosport Hard, this floating bridge operated across the harbour for...

2016年4月8日 · Five pictures today from Martin Halsey, two of which show the old floating bridge which linked Broad Street, Old Portsmouth, and Gosport.

The dockyards of Portsmouth, One of most important naval sites in Britain, Are shown by red blocks. The defence fortifications of the area are clearly delineated. South Sea Castle, One of the defensive forts built on the south coast by Henry VIII, Is shown in plan form. Map provided by The British Library. in 1797.

A horse ferry boat was introduced in 1834 but this did not put off a group of local businessmen who decided to introduce a superior link across the water in the form of a Floating Bridge. 147 people applied for shares in the new Floating Bridge Company, most of them coming from Portsmouth or Portsea, though there were also a few from Gosport.

From that evolved quite quickly the concept at least of a walk around the missing Ramparts around Old Portsmouth.

2011年1月22日 · The floating bridge (or chain ferry) was a feature of Portsmouth Harbour for over 150years. The engineer who invented the concept first made one that crossed the River Dart at Dartmouth in 1831. Portsmouth was the fifth one he constructed, and it was opened, after an Act of Parliament had been obtained despite opposition from both the Admiralty ...

By the turn of the century the foot passenger trade of the floating bridge was beginning to suffer as the importance of Old Portsmouth waned and the new city centre grew. The Old and New Companies had their landing at Portsmouth Hard close to the dockyard, naval base, and railway station, and at the hub of a tram and bus network serving all ...

The Iron Floating Bridge connecting Portsmouth with Gosport Print. A view of the Portsmouth-Gosport chain ferry, built by Lewis and Stockwell, London, in 1864 to the designs of F.H. Trevithick and with machinery by James Watt & Co., of Birmingham.

2023年9月20日 · Point Old Portsmouth. Floating bridge. This is a new angle for the Floating Bridge and better than we normally see.

A 3D model developed in SketchUp of old Portsmouth. I then created an stereolithographic file from this so that a physical model could be CNC milled. The milling process took 72 hours to create a model at 1:1000