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Old master
LEFT: Telford’s 1829 design for a bridge
across the Avon gorge in Bristol, with
towers rising from the valley floor.
This was ridiculed as old-fashioned
by critics, including Brunel
BELOW: Telford depicted at the age of
around 40 years, as his professional star
was rising at the turn of the 19th century

Young pretender
LEFT: One iteration of Brunel’s winning
design for the bridge, dating from 1830
BELOW: Brunel’s bridge today. Financial
problems meant it was not completed until
after his death
INSET: Robert Howlett’s iconic 1857
photograph of Brunel in his trademark
stovepipe hat

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