There were days when drovers would drive stock over the main Fairfield Bridge to Frankton saleyards.

[7] It was designed by Stanley Jones of Auckland, and Roose Shipping started construction in August 1934.

[7] It was the fourth largest reinforced concrete tied-arch bridge in New Zealand, and the second over the Waikato River.

[12] In 1991 a reconstruction project costing NZ$1.1 million took place, as the bridge was suffering the effects of concrete cancer,[7] discovered in 1980.

[14] In 2009 Jonathan Bennett of the Mormon Few Stunt Crew was charged, and in 2010 was convicted,[15] for dangerous driving for riding a motorcycle on the arches of Fairfield Bridge.