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London is a city that truly lives on its river, the Thames. But for her, the Romans nor its Londinium not settled here, in a place which was once a very wide river was the easiest to overcome. During the long history of almost two thousand years the Thames has overcome many bridges at various places and this is a guide to the present fifteen bridges. Did you know that most of the bridges comes from the Victorian era and that few can boast a truly interesting details? Parts of a bridge as they used to build another in an entirely different city, one of the bridges on the island is unique in that it combines the two churches, and the third, in turn, arranged to suit the interior decoration of the House of Lords ... and curiosities here by no means stop!
View of the Thames from Victoria Tower, the less famous of the towers that adorn the Palace of Westminster. In the foreground Westminster Bridge, in the center of Hungerford Bridge (also known as Charing Cross Bridge), but no longer in the photograph is the Waterloo Bridge. (Photo: Britainonview / James McCormick)
Thames, Britain's second longest river, flowing beneath London Bridge 24, counting from Kewa in the west of the city and to the famous London Bridge, Tower Bridge. Some bridges are designed for road traffic, a railway, gdjegdje are parallel to each bridge, a few are solely for pedestrians. This article is supported corner cabinet by photographs walk during corner cabinet which you'll learn about the most important corner cabinet bridges in London and find out a little about their history, architecture and the reasons why they are in place. You might, in the end, remain somewhat puzzled by the fact that most of today's London bridges in place since the second half of the 19th century and the late Victorian era ...
Three famous London Bridge skip this article because, of course, has already earned the separate articles on its history and specifics. London Bridge is located at the place where the Romans corner cabinet bridged the Thames but it is still best known for the old stone bridge from the late 12th and early 13th century who later was dotted with numerous shops, craft workshops and houses as "hung" on both sides bridge.
Tower Bridge is certainly the most famous London Bridge, but many do not know is that while, surprisingly, one of the newer - its Gothic architecture as it was popular in the Victorian era of the late 19th century many states to conclude that this is a much older bridge, but Thames At this point it was not bridged until such time as the brilliant Victorian engineers are not designed Tower Bridge. Many other bridges mentioned in this article already existed when he built the Tower Bridge! Finally, the Millennium Bridge which bridges the Thames at the point where the northern coast is St. Paul's Cathedral on the south Tate Modern is a fresh addition to Temzinu London's face, only a few years old, and his extra publicity at the beginning corner cabinet of the third millennium has brought the fact that had a problem with - rocking! Albert Bridge
Although it seems more modern, Albert Bridge at this place since the 1873rd and is one of only two London bridge after which the Victorian age were not rebuilt - the second such is Westminster Bridge. (Photo: corner cabinet Iridescent, a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)
Iron construction and relatively modern look Albert bridge connecting Chelsea on the north bank of the Thames from Battersea fourth on the south, west London, corner cabinet could you lead to the conclusion that Albert Bridge is a modern addition to the panorama corner cabinet of the Thames. But this is a suspension bridge work Victorian engineers and opened another 1873rd - dedicated, of course, a favorite of Prince Albert, prematurely deceased husband of Queen Victoria. (Something about the specific relationship of Victoria and Albert and the Albert's impact on British industry corner cabinet and architecture recenzirajući I wrote this movie.) corner cabinet
Victorian engineers still could not so well predicted 'explosion' corner cabinet of road transport in the twentieth century, so this 220-meter wide bridge just over 12 meters, with a total width of lanes from eight yards. The only intervention that has been made on this bridge in modern times is to add two new supporting pillar in the middle m

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