The Listing for the current bridge tells us it is a "Public road bridge over the Grand Union Canal and towpaths. 1876, replacing an earlier inadequate brick bridge of c1815. Provided by the St Pancras Vestry and the Metropolitan Board of Works. Slightly cambered cast-iron girder bridge. Cast-iron panelled parapets with relief moulded rectangles; similar parapets on bridge deck provide pedestrian walkways. Brick abutments with stone coping. Stone plaque {the Guilders Stone} in north-east abutment recording the rebuilding."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Road Bridge over Grand Union Canal
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Guilders Stone
The phrase "Guilders Stone" has not been explained, other than a suggestion t...
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Barry Mason
Cycling activist. He was known for supporting community and environmental projects in Southwark. For a time he managed school building projects for Southwark Council, before becoming manager of Sur...
1 memorial
London Road Car Company
Former public transport company. It eventually amalgamated with the London General Omnibus Company and Vanguard Motorbus Company. Maps are normally very helpful with buildings like this but this b...
1 memorial
Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, Charles Cheers
Businessman. Born Liverpool. His brand name being Castrol he was very successful and set up in the City of London. Lord Mayor in 1915-16. Promoted and funded pioneering aviation and motor sports. 1...
2 memorials
South End Road bridge reconstruction
Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.
1 memorial
Air Mechanic 2nd Class Alfred Harvey Benger
Worked for the Great Northern Railway and died in WW1. In 2009 we were contacted by Tina Rickward, telling us she was the grand-niece of the man who appears as 'Benger A. H.' on the King's Cross w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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3 memorials
Jabez West
Campaigning working-man and temperance advocate. Son of a blacksmith from Princes Risborough, he came to Bermondsey in the 1830s and worked in the leather trade. Campaigned for political reform, th...
1 memorial
Denis Gerald Fitzgerald
Auxiliary Fireman Denis Gerald Fitzgerald was born on 20 June 1912 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of William Fitzgerald (b.1886) and Mabel Annie Fitzgerald née Theobald (1887-1958). He was baptised on...
War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials
St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
1 memorial
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