Landmark
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Hbr Brg, Sydney NSW
Steel arch spanning a harbour, built over eight years by more than a thousand workers.
This guide to the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney turns on its official opening on 19 March 1932, when a stranger in cavalry uniform galloped past the official party, drew his sword, and cut the ribbon before the Premier could. He was Francis de Groot, a Dublin-born antique dealer with the paramilitary New Guard, furious the Governor hadn't been asked to open the bridge. Police dragged him off his horse, and the guide follows what happened to him next in court. It also traces the more than 1,300 workers who built the arch itself without scaffolding.
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