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Silver Street is located in the southwest of central Cambridge, England. It links Queen's Road to the west with Trumpington Street to the east. The road continues west out of central Cambridge as Sidgwick Avenue. The road crosses the River Cam on Silver Street Bridge.
Silver Street Bridge, officially known as Small Bridge is the sixth river Cam bridge overall and the second bridge on its middle stream in Cambridge. In 1959 the concrete bridge with the design by Sir Edwin Lutyens replaced an 1841 cast iron bridge.
Silver Street is located in the southwest of central Cambridge, England. [1] [2] It links Queen's Road to the west with Trumpington Street to the east. The road continues west out of central Cambridge as Sidgwick Avenue.
Newnham Grange is an early 19th century house of gracious aspect containing fittings of the period. In 1976 Margaret E Keynes published ‘A House by the River – Newnham Grange to Darwin College’, an extensive history of the buildings and people who lived at this location. For a history of Newnham Grange follow this link:
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The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. This type of structure, technically tangent and radial trussing, is an efficient structural use of timber, and was also used for the timber suppo...
A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newtonwithout the use of nuts or bolts. Various stories relate how at some point in the past either students or fellows of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together, but were unable to work out how to hold the structure together, and were obliged...
Ruddock, Ted (1979). Arch Bridges and their Builders 1735-1835. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521090216. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
Photograph of the original 1748 model of the bridge, made by William Etheridge and still in possession by Clare College
Silver Street Bridge is a Grade II listed building in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
1 Silver Street. The tailor’s shop at address “1 Silver Street”, on the corner of Silver Street and Trumpington Street, was at one time owned by Queens’ College. On 1868 September 29, the site was leased for 99 years to the architect William Milner Fawcett (1832– 1908), who demolished the buildings on the site, and in 1869 erected a ...
