OFFICIAL BRIDGE OPENING

Our NYE 2030 celebrations will involve the official opening of The Cove Footbridge. This means that all NYE revellers will become a part of history, similar to people that were present at the opening of The Harbour Bridge or The Opera House.


The opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge occurred on the 19th March 1932, and was very controversial. Francis de Groot, a member of the right wing New Guard gatecrashed the ceremony on horseback and slashes the ribbon ahead of Premier Lang, proclaiming the bridge open for the people of NSW. Hundreds of thousands of people walk over the Bridge on this day. De Groot is later fined £5 for damaging public property.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Francis De Groot opening the Harbor Bridge; people walking on the Harbor Bridge on its opening day; the construction of the bridge during the 1920s.