It was another two years before our Olympic Pool opened on the corner where the pedestrians can be seen progressing.

Our first European pedestrian bridge was the fallen tree downstream on the Peel River, used by John Oxley on September 2, 1818, which had a single use as the party moved on to their Tintinhull campsite the next day.

Many years later in the 1850's temporary log bridges were used to cross the Peel River and Goonoo Creek but none survived flooding, including an AA Company bridge near Darling Street, destroyed by floodwater in 1857.

The same year William Dowel came to the fore to construct our first successful pedestrian Suspension Bridge.

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Then came our first successful horse-traffic bridge, the Dray Bridge (1861), with later the Iron Bridge (1882) shown in the photo, and much later our present traffic bridge (1965), the latter 3 all situated within 50 metres of one another.

Remnants of the Iron Bridge foundations can still be seen in the river, just upstream from our present bridge.

The 1861 Paradise, 1923 Jewry Street and 1993 George Fielder Bridges have also all served us over the years in crossing the river.