On 3 July , Chiswick Bridge opened at 4. Twickenham then followed at 5pm and Hampton Court at 5. Chiswick Bridge is best known for being metres upstream from the Boat Race finish line. Kew Bridge takes you from the train station of the same name across the Thames to Kew Gardens.
These include the silver mallet and trowel he used, as well as a bronze axe. Twickenham Bridge was designed by Maxwell Ayrton, the architect of the original Wembley Stadium and a pioneer of the architectural use of concrete. It connects Twickenham and St. Margarets on the north bank of the river, and Richmond on the south bank.
Built between and as a replacement for a ferry crossing, it is now the oldest surviving Thames bridge in London. Find out about riverside cycle paths in London, or stop off at one of the city's riverside pubs. Follow the coronavirus guidance for London. COVID information. How many bridges are there in London? London Bridge While much more subdued in design compared to its flashier neighbour, London Bridge is arguably just as famous.
Also, note the paintings or stickers that are on the floor of the bridge. It was opened in There was an earlier bridge on the same site opened in , and it was originally known as Queen Street Bridge, as shown on the John Snow Map of London.
The bridge was notable for having the longest cast iron span, 73 m, ever made. The bridge provides access to Upper Thames Street on the north bank and, due to the Ring of steel, there is no further access to the City and the north. This has led to a reputation of it being the least used bridge in central London and it is sometimes known as the "car park bridge" as coach drivers use it to park their vehicles. The bridge was rebuilt but fell into disrepair when the Romans left.
It was rebuilt in and again destroyed — this time by Prince Olaf in The Norman Bridge built in was destroyed in the London Tornado of King William II had it rebuilt but this time it was ravaged by fire in The stone bridge built in had a chapel dedicated to Thomas Becket in the centre and houses and shops were built along the bridge, making the passage for carts and wagons very narrow.
Fire destroyed the North end in and the South end in In the houses were removed from the bridge and a new bridge was built in This bridge was sold in to an American millionaire and transported piece by piece to be reassembled at Lake Havasu in Arizona.
The current bridge was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in You will find them in the Gothic vaults under the bridge. In the London Bridge Experience you will be led by actors through the history of the bridge.
London Tombs takes place in an ancient plague pit and is very frightening. Image by burge on Wikimedia under Creative Commons License. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London. The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers.
The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour. Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.
Why You Should Visit: Unique and majestic structure; amazing to see especially at night! Great view and a glass floor on the high-level walkways that is really quite cool. Don't skip the engine room, which is very educational as to how the bridge operates. Opening Hours: Daily: 10ampm. Walking Tours in London, England. In , all tolls were removed but rather than easing congestion, this led to an increase in traffic. The invention of cast iron and advances in materials and engineering now made bridges easier to build and more ambitious designs possible.
Old Vauxhall Bridge , completed in using a loan against future toll income, was London's first cast iron bridge. London's first suspension Bridge, Hammersmith Suspension now demolished , opened in In work began on a replacement for Old London Bridge. The foundations of the venerable structure, altered and re-altered many times, were eroding away and the bridge had become a danger to shipping.
The new version of London Bridge opened alongside its predecessor eight years later, in Designed by Scottish engineer John Rennie, this bridge is perhaps best known for having ended up in Arizona. And so, the bridge that had stood for over years, one of the Medieval wonders of the world, was now to be demolished.
Its removal caused serious erosion problems for the bridges upstream, as the current now increased considerably. Rennie's replacement only had three piers compared to the old bridge's 19 and the water was no longer held back. After the initial bridge building spree, two factors contributed to congestion in London. The first was the toll payment system, which fuelled the amount of speculative bridge-building in anticipation of profit.
You might think that this would ease congestion but people preferred to use the non-toll bridges and so headed for certain ones over others. The second factor was the coming of the railways in the early 19th century. At first, trains terminated at stations each side of the river. The continued expansion of London led to enormous congestion around stations, particularly on the south side of the Thames, since everyone disembarking wanted to then cross over.
Old Southwark Bridge was hardly used at this time because it charged a toll. The City of London recognised that it had to buy the privately owned Southwark Bridge and remove the charge. It was a process, started in , that took 17 years. When the London Metropolitan Board of Works was created it continued the process, buying eleven private bridges between and Cannon Street Rail Bridge opened in Truly a railway bridge-building boom and at the end of it, most lines had a north London terminus.
The arrival of ships generated road traffic and a bridge was needed below the Pool. The bridge had to allow tall ships to pass. Tower Bridge was the solution. It works like a drawbridge and was the last of the Victorian bridges to be built on the Thames.
Some ships, particularly collier vessels carrying coal to the Fulham and Wandsworth power stations, had to travel further up the Thames and this was made possible not by changing the bridges but by designing boats to cope with them. Colliers were built to be low in the water and had collapsible funnels and masts. They went upstream on the rising tide but could only return at low tide, since without their cargo they rode higher in the water.
Tunnelling was pursued in the late 18th century as an option that provided a crossing without interfering with shipping. Early attempts were all sited downstream of the Port of London, since the engineering was too complicated to undertake if a bridge could be made to serve the same purpose. The first attempt was made by Ralph Dodd in and sited between Tilbury and Gravesend.
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