1894

Tower Bridge

Categories: Tourism / Traditions, Transport

Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower. Designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barry. 8 years to build. See the picture source website for more details and go visit - it's a great view. The London Historians went and reported back. Discovering London has some stunning Unseen Images of Tower Bridge Under Construction, and some mind-boggling Forgotten Images of Tower Bridge as it Might Have Been......

The Bridge received little damage during WW2 which is surprising since apparently it was the specified target for all the V1 rockets.

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Tower Bridge

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Tower Bridge, 1894 - opening

In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wa...

Tower Bridge, 1977 - electrification

City of London Tower Bridge Constructed and maintained by the Corporation of ...

Tower Bridge, 1982 - opened to the public

City of London Tower Bridge The main towers, high level walkways and the mac...

Tower Bridge, 1994 - centenary

Corporation of London, Tower Bridge This plaque was unveiled on the centenary...

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St Katharine Docks

SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images. In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark...

Group, Commerce, Tourism / Traditions

4 memorials

Veteran-Cycle Club

Group, Community / Clubs, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial

Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien

Lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as a community champion. In 1965 she intr...

Person, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...

Group, Community / Clubs, Law, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial

Clerks' well at Clerkenwell

First mentioned in 1174. Closed by about 1850 and effectively lost. Rediscovered in 1924 during building works. We normally find pictures of our subjects out on the web but we just could not find ...

Place, Food & Drink, Tourism / Traditions

1 memorial