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Suspension Bridge celebrations procession
Flag waving children have lined the Clifton Suspension Bridge, cheering on a procession which marks 150 years since the iconic structure was opened.
The “modest re-enactment” ceremony of dignities, construction workers who built the new visitor centre, staff and volunteers left Clifton village and crossed the Suspension Bridge on Monday.
It follows a spectacular fireworks display on Sunday evening, which lit up the skies above the bridge.
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Laura Hilton, Clifton Suspension Bridge trust, said they have had “amazing feedback” about the celebrations and “people have been sending in photos from the firework display taken across the city.”
She said that today’s celebrations are more of a symbolic gesture: “Being a Monday afternoon we can’t do anything on a grand scale, but we wanted to do something to mark the 150 years exactly”.
Hilton said it is a “mirror procession” of the original procession but on a much smaller scale as in 1864 it took “44 minutes to cross the bridge which is not something we could do today”.
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