Vauxhall Bridge
Vauxhall Bridge is a steel and granite bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a north-west south-east direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Westminster on the north bank.
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Design | Arch bridge |
| Piers in water | 4 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 50,533 vehicles (2004)[1] |
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History
Vauzhall Bridge in 1906. It replaced an earlier bridge as part of a program for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames. The original bridge was itself built on the site of a former ferry.
The building of both bridges was difficult, with both the first and second bridges needing multiple redesigns from multiple architects. The original bridge, the first iron bridge over the Thames, was built by a private company and was run as a toll bridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took eight years to build, was the first in London to carry trams and later one of the first two roads in London to have a bus lane.
The present bridge is most significant for road traffic across the Thames.
In June 2012, the bridge was highlighted on the route of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the Thames.[3]
Vauxhall Bridge Media
Westminster & Lambeth, 1746. Westminster Bridge, opened in 1740, connects Westminster to Lambeth; Huntley Ferry crosses the river on the site of the future Vauxhall Bridge.
A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens
Regent Bridge shortly after opening
Share of the Vauxhall Bridge Company, issued 7. February 1815
View from Mill Bank, London: Vauxhall Bridge spans the River Thames, on which bank a group of men is building boats
Vauxhall Bridge and Nine Elms station in 1847
Diverted outflow of the River Effra into the Thames, beneath Drury's Science
Pomeroy's Pottery
2009 view of Vauxhall Bridge, from upstream on the south bank
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References
- ↑ Cookson 2006, p. 316
- ↑ Thames Bridges Heights, Port of London Authority, archived from the original on 2011-07-20, retrieved 2009-05-25
- ↑ Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, Key facts Archived 2012-06-05 at the Wayback Machine; Londontown.com, "Thames Jubilee Pageant,"; retrieved 2012-6-4.
Further reading
- Carpenter, David (2003), The Struggle for Mastery, Oxford University Press US, ISBN 0-19-522000-5, OCLC 52594503
- Cookson, Brian (2006), Crossing the River, Edinburgh: Mainstream, ISBN 1-840189-76-2, OCLC 63400905
- De Maré, Eric (1954), Bridges of Britain (2nd (1975) ed.), London: Batsford, ISBN 0-713429-25-9, OCLC 255670618
- Jeremiah, David (2000), Architecture and Design for the Family in Britain 1900–70, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-719058-89-9, OCLC 186445752
- Matthews, Peter (2008), London's Bridges, Oxford: Shire, ISBN 978-0-7478-0679-0, OCLC 213309491
- Murray, Peter; Stevens, Mary Anne; Cadman, David (1996), Living Bridges: the inhabited bridge, past, present and future, London: Royal Academy of Arts, ISBN 3-791317-34-2, OCLC 36113250
- Sir Alec Skempton, ed. (2002), Biographical Directory of Civil Engineers, vol. 1, London: Thomas Telford, ISBN 0-72-772939-X
- Timbs, John (1855), Curiosities of London, London: David Bogue, OCLC 3807583
Other websites
Media related to Vauxhall Bridge at Wikimedia Commons