Sydney Harbour Bridge / 90 Years Old Today

Some personal connections to the bridge:

The bridge is held together by six million Australian-made hand-driven rivets supplied by the McPhersons company of Melbourne. My father was with this company his whole Australian working life.
My mother was among the 300,000 crowd at the opening of the bridge in 1932 and said she witnessed Francis de Groot bolting up on a borrowed former racehorse and slashing the ribbon with his sword, declaring the Bridge open.

De Groot was a leading member of the New Guard, a right-wing militia group disenchanted with the Premier Jack Lang’s (a socialist) decision to open the Bridge himself, instead of the Governor who was the Queen’s representative.

Current connection with the bridge: 

We live just a short drive away from the Moruya quarry which was the source of the granite facing for the bridge pylons.

Still beautiful after all these years.