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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 19, No. 548.] SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1832. [PRICE 2d.
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[Illustration: STAINES NEW BRIDGE.]
This handsome structure has lately been completed, and was opened on
Easter Monday last, April 24, by their Majesties and the Court passing
over with suitable ceremony. This was a gala day for Staines and its
vicinity; for, independently of the enthusiasm awakened by the visit
of the popular Sovereign, the completion of so useful and ornamental
a fabric must have been an occasion of no ordinary interest to every
inhabitant of the district.
The _programme_, as the French would say, of the day's _fete_ has been
so recently given in the "chronicles of the times," that we need not
repeat it. A few descriptive particulars of the Bridge, from _The
Times_ Journal, may be found to possess a more permanent value:--
"It consists of three very flat segmental arches of granite. The
middle arch of 74 feet span, and the two side arches of 66 feet
each; besides two side arches of 10 feet each for the
towing-paths, and six brick arches of 20 feet span each, two on
the Surrey side, and four on the Middlesex side, to allow the
floods to pass off.
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