Looking through a top strut over the centre of the road 200ft below

Bryden Allen climbed one of these hangers or struts, and chimneyed up over the ledge with a shoe lace belay through a bolt hole.. My notes on the back of this print.. "Climbed across one of the girders on top of the bridge. Inside the girder you can stand & look down. Looking NE & down." Then I have a diagram of the location.. see image in comment below! See a view of the construction of this section.. www.flickr.com/photos/29029178@N03/3276412314/ see www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/heritagebranch/herit... When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in March 1932 it served as a symbol for a return to better times. The world-wide depression hit Australia hard, with little demand for the nation’s main exports, wool and wheat. Rural workers took to the road, relying on both hand outs and the odd job. In the cities tens of thousands lost their jobs. Over 5000 men had worked building the Bridge, but after completion no one wanted or needed to hire dogmen or riveters. While built by a British firm, Dorman Long, the Bridge, at the insistence of the NSW government that paid for it, did call for Australian materials, most notably in the Moruya granite of the pylons, a decorative feature, not an integral part of the construction. Hailed as a product of the industrial age, and a triumph of British engineering, the Bridge was not modern in an architectural sense. Its steel arch design had been used in the Hell’s Gate railway bridge in New York, planned before the outbreak of World War I, and opened in 1915. The most modern aspect of the Bridge was not the design nor the construction, but the fact that Sydney’s new suburban electric trains would use it. The trams had long been electrified but the trains had not. No longer would dirty stream trains ply the railway routes from Central to the suburbs. And Sydney would also get an underground railway, enabling passengers to get to the north shore without using the old fashioned ferries that plied between Circular Quay and Milson’s Point. Watch a fantastic panorama above Sydney here. www.lensaloft.com.au/Interactive_tour/Sydney/Sydney.html On the iPad, you pan around by moving and panning the tablet. You can also zoom in and pan by touch. see an old video of the opening of the Bridge on Youtube.. www.youtube.com/embed/Jy5cZ-IO0Eg?feature=player_detailpage And the new Bridge climb! youtu.be/epxhLxlgshM IMG_2963