Built 1739–50 by Swiss bridge engineer Charles Labelye. Until this was opened there was no bridge between Putney Bridge (1729) and London Bridge. Replaced with the current bridge opened on 24 May 1862. This was designed by Thomas Page but the Gothic detailing is by Sir Charles Barry.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Westminster Bridge
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely descr...
Sheen milestone
The inscription seems to have been re-carved, incorrectly, at some point, int...
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Battersea Bridge
In 1771 a ferry was replaced with a wooden toll bridge designed (badly, apparently) by Henry Holland - shown in our image. The replacement bridge was begun in 1887 and opened in 1890.
1 memorial
Mayflower Compact
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by the 'Separatists' who were passengers on the Mayflower. It was signed by forty-one members while the ship was anchored in what is now Pro...
1 memorial
Canal & River Trust
From their website: "We're the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways, because we believe that life is better by water." Canal & River Trust took over the guardiansh...
1 memorial
Spa Road Station
A terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway, London's first railway. The original station was badly located and had a very narrow platform. Passengers were supposed to queue on the steps outside...
2 memorials
Lord Ashfield
Transport organizer and politician. Born Albert Henry Knattriess at New Normanton, Derbyshire. His family moved to the USA in 1880 and changed their surname to Stanley. While working for various tr...
2 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
PP - 4O - Blake
EC1, Edward Street
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Lehmann Gluckstein
Asher Lehmann Meyer Gluckstein was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. HIs family chose the surname Gluckstein (lucky stone) when living under Napoleonic rule in Bremen (now in Germany). As a you...
1 memorial
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer. Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
1 memorial
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