Britain's Greatest Bridges

Channel 5 +1

4:50 AM to 5:40 AM

Wednesday 8 January

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Engineer Rob Bell offers an insight into the history, design and building process of the Britannia Bridge, across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. The difficult task of building the 100ft iron structure was taken up by civil engineer Robert Stephenson and his team, including William Fairbairn and Eaton Hodgkinson. But in May 1970, four youths set light to the famous bridge, and Rob meets a fireman who fought the blaze that fateful night