This angle was chosen to get a Sydney like impression as possible of the Tyne Bridge at Newcastle, England. The appearance is very similar but the statistics of the bridge make it obvious that it is a scaled down version of the Sydney bridge: 389 metres total length, longest span 162 metres, width 17 metres. More importantly it was opened 4 years before the Sydney bridge, although built by the same engineers, Dorman Long & Co. of Middlebrough.
It connects Newcastle with Gateshead, essentially the same town divided by the river but with different names and civic administrations; a bit like the situation that some towns on the Oder-Neisse line found themselves in after 1945.
There should be better versions of this photo obtainable in the right lighting conditions, but the weather wasn't co-operative when our director took this shot.
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