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."
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Hampstead Road Bridge over Grand Union Canal
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Guilders Stone
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Robert Seaward
We can't find any confirmation but our guess is that Seaward worked at the tube station and through his efforts some sort of club space was provided for his fellow workers in the building. Can anyo...
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first gas-lit street in the world
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
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Chelsea Bridge
At the same time that Battersea Park was created the first bridge at its eastern corner was built (shown in the image). This was opened in 1858, as Victoria Bridge, by Queen Victoria on her way to ...
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Purley air crash
A de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which had only just taken off from Croydon Airport bound for Paris, crashed at Purley in Surrey. All seven passengers and the pilot were killed. A ...
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Baker Street and Waterloo Railway
Constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, between Baker Street and Lambeth North, (then called Kennington Road). It was later extended to Elephant & Castle, and then t...
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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