Memories of the old Hobart Floating Bridge

Various film and television footage of the transition from the Hobart Floating Bridge to the new Tasman Bridge in the early 1960s, to the sound of "Sleepy Shores" by Johnny Pearson.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

I have been over it in the day. Part of it at least sunk in Cornelian bay just up river from the Tasman Bridge

[@Tewbacka]

I was one of many New Town High School Students standing on the foreshore of the Derwent near the Botanical Gardens watching the old bridge being separated from the shore and floated up river in 1964

[@JBofBrisbane]

I read that the pontoon at Allonnah on Bruny Island is the only remaining portion of the Floating Bridge.

[@tasmanross5589]

JBofBrisbane This is correct. The portion of floating bridge at Allonnah came from the far-eastern section of the bridge.

[@paranormalpassages9774]

awesome to fish from!! ive been there heaps thanks 4 the upload Tasman

[@lukeharpus]

I wish I got to see it but I was born after the bridges era

[@debradireen3625]

I remember the water spraying up in rough weather

[@ivanolsen7966]

it has since been proven that it should have been put into storage for EMERGENCIES ...

[@sydthegoat88]

That old bridge took some real buffeting by the elements. Ok, I admit I just came here to use the word "buffeting"

[@leandabee]

😂😂

[@Frankle2005]

Before then they had Boats what else are you had to drive to the bridge water bridge go through there and then you’re on the eastern side