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Dubai's Water Towers
Dubai's Domestic Water System 1970s.
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Bastakia's Wind Towers.
Derelict Demolished Restored.
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Captain's Stores.
Cameras Binoculars Smuggling.
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Chicago Beach Hotel.
Popular but Demolished.
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Dubai's Clock Tower.
The Story Behind the Tower.
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Finding Water for Dubai.
Dubai's First Domestic Water System.
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Dubai's First Traffic Lights.
They didn't work at night!.
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Sheikh Saeed's House.
Derelict prior to Restoration.
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Sheikh Rashid.
Opening Port Rashid Container Terminal.
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Dubai Creek Raft Race.
First Race in 1971.
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Dubai's First Power Station
Demolished
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Port Rashid.
Chapter 2
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Dubai's Traffic Police.
Dealing with new Technology
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Dubai's Markets
Before Supermarkets
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Dubai's Kazans.
An Engineering Marvel
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Dubai's People
Shopping Dubai 1970s
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Jumeirah Beach Road
How it was in 1968
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Wadi Portrait.
When Dubai was innocent!
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First Show Jumping
Dubai Metropolitan Hotel 1987
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Hard Rock Cafe
Demolished??????
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Dubai Grand Prix.
Motor Racing comes to Dubai 1981
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Al Fahidi Fort.
Dubai's best Museum
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Emirates Golf Club.
Dubai's Premier Golf Course.
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Dubai's Post Office.
Postal Order Process!
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Dubai's Creek
How it used to be 1963
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Dubai Defense Force
On Parade in Jumeirah 1972
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Dubai Country Club
Demolished 2007
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Bait Al Wakheel
Dubai's First Office Building
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Dubai's Wharves
Where Dubai used to make its money
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Cycle Dubai
Cycling come to Dubai
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Dubai Dirt Donksl
Dubai's Motorbike First
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Britannia in Dubai.
Queen Elizabeth 2 State Visit
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Al Maktoum Bridge
Opening 1969
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Bastakia
Before it was restored
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Dubai's People
As they used to be
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Dubai Airport
Immigration and Customs
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Duba's First Power Station
Demolished!!!!
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Dubai's Police
Car Crash 1970s Style
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Dubai's World Trade Centre
Dubai's First Hi Rise
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Dubai 1972
As it used to be!
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Official Opening of Dubai's Al Maktoum Bridge 1963
Sheikh Rashid officially opened Dubai's first bridge on 23rd May 1963 connecting Dubai and Deira sides of the Creek. People no longer had to ride or walk around the top of the Creek to get from one side to the other. More importantly Al Maktoum Bridge enabled goods to move quickly from Customs Wharves on Dubai side to the Diera Dhow Wharves where these goods were traded and shipped by Dhow to India, East Africa and the Gulf Countries.
Original Al Maktoum Bridge did not have a Lifting Section. Lifting Section was built between 1969 and 1970. More information here.»
Who paid for Al Maktoum Bridge?
Sheikh Rashid financed Al Maktoum Bridge by charging
a Toll for vehicles to cross the bridge. That charge
only applied when crossing from Deira to Dubai. Travelling
the other way was free.
Al Maktoum Bridge » An important development for Dubai's Trade
Toll Tickets were sold in shops. There was a small
wooden Toll Booth located at the start of the bridge
on Deira side. The Toll Collector usually stood outside
the Toll Booth. As Drivers approached the Booth they
held a ticket out of the Driver's window. They didn't
slow down! They judged the best place to let go of
their Toll Ticket so the wind took it somewhere near
the Collector. The Toll Collector rarely bothered to
collect the ticket. Just letting the ticket fly into
the wind from the car or truck was enough to let the
Collector know you had bought a ticket. The area around the Toll Booth was always littered
with Toll Tickets. Drivers knew when they were approaching the bridge. The landscape and road turned blue with the littered bridge toll tickets! If anyone looked closely at these tickets, they may have seen some "tickets" were
just pieces of paper! Nevertheless by around 1973 Al Maktoum Bridge was
paid for and traffic no longer had to pay a toll.
Who built Al Maktoum Bridge?
Overseas AST built Al Maktoum Bridge with Sir William Halcrow as the Consultant Engineer. Overseas AST was an Austrian Engineering Company that established in Dubai in 1958 and Dubai's first major construction company. Overseas AST still operates today as a Dubai owned Company.
Photo Gallery of Original Al Maktoum Bridge's Construction. HERE.»
 
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