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.
Vauxhall Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 51°29′15″N 0°07′37″W / 51.4875°N 0.1269°W |
| Carries | 4 lanes of roadway, cyclists, and pedestrians |
| Crosses | River Thames |
| Locale | London |
| Preceded by | Regent Bridge (Old Vauxhall Bridge) 1816–1898 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Arch bridge |
| Material | Steel and granite |
| Total length | 809 feet (247 m) |
| Width | 80 feet (24 m) |
| No. of spans | 5 |
| Piers in water | 4 |
| Clearance below | 39 feet 9 inches (12.1 m) at lowest astronomical tide[1] |
| History | |
| Designer | Sir Alexander Binnie, Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice |
| Opened | 26 May 1906 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 50,533 vehicles (2004)[2] |
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History
changeVauzhall 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]
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Thames Bridges Heights, Port of London Authority, archived from the original on 2011-07-20, retrieved 2009-05-25
- ↑ Cookson 2006, p. 316
- ↑ 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
change- 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
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Media related to Vauxhall Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
