Harding Frew

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Alison Eavis Harding Frew (1883-1952), known professionally as "Harding Frew", was an Australian civil engineer primarily concerned with engineering projects in Queensland, his home state.

[edit] Projects

  • 80 bridges throughout Queensland
  • Pyrmount Power House, Sydney
  • Hornibrook Highway Project
  • Sandgate-Redcliffe Bridge
  • Redcliffe Jetty
  • Armidale Electricity System
  • Innisfail City Plan

[edit] William Jolly Bridge

This is his most notable project. Erected as a series of bow-string sections it was either the fourth or sixth crossing of the river in Brisbane. Built of concrete sprayed steel, (gunite), a Swiss system, and completed in 1932, it was renamed from the Grey Street Bridge to the William Jolly Bridge, in 1955, after an erstwhile Lord Mayor of Brisbane

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