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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First Blackfriars Station
As we write the work on the new river-spanning Blackfriars Station is close to completion. It seems Blackfriars Station has never known whether it is a North or a South Londoner. The first Blackf...
1 memorial
Blackfriars Bridge
The first bridge on this site (shown in the picture) was designed by Robert Mylne and added a third crossing point to those already provided by London Bridge and Westminster Bridge. The plaque says...
2 memorials
Peter Hill
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
1 memorial
Private John William Banner
John William Banner was born on 11 September 1880 at 49 Tyneside Terrace, Elswick, Newcastle-On-Tyne, Northumberland, the eldest of the four children of Charles Banner (1845-1918) and Margaret Ann ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers
The guild was first chartered in 1568. For Tyler, read Tiler not Taylor, and the connection makes sense. The 1666 Great Fire of London initially appeared to be good for the Company due to a Royal ...
2 memorials
Harrison Ford - pavement plaque - Elstree and Borehamwood Station
WD6, Allum Lane, Station forecourt
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
1 subject commemorated
People of Bethnal Green who died in WW1, WW2 and subsequent wars
The text actually reads "Men, women and children of the borough who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 and World War II 1939-1945 and thereafter on active service". We find this form of w...
1 memorial
Founding of the state of Victoria in Australia
A small, heavily populated state on the south-east coast of Australia. It was officially separated from New South Wales, given a constitution and named Victoria in 1850. The enabling legislation ...
1 memorial
George Hornidge Porter, Lord Porter of Luddenham
Born Yorkshire. 1967 Nobel Laureate for his work on photosynthesis relating to the potential use of hydrogen to supply energy.
1 memorial
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