Heathcote’s First Bridge Gets Replaced – 1964
Where Waltham Road crosses Eastern, Riverlaw and Fifield Terraces, you get the Wilsons Street Bridge. It proudly displays its Christchurch City Council plaque of being built in 1964. What is largely unknown is that this crossing –or very close to it – was where the very first bridge was built over the Heathcote River. Originally …
