Best Thames road bridge

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Sorry to be slighly off topic but the Cremone Bridge ( Battersea Rail Bridge ) must have the greatest destination?
Trains going north over this go to The North Pole! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole_depot ).

 

[_pH_]

Not a road bridge I know, but Grosvenor Bridge is my favourite. Sitting in the little shelter reading the paper at Battersea Pier Staff Halt on the southern end always feels splendidly isolated, like being in the middle of nowhere in the middle of London.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

dunno really.

any journey that involves crossing the river in a southerly direction is good (I currently do so on my journeys both to and from work)

probably Waterloo Bridge

 

[ska invita]

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any journey that involves crossing the river in a southerly direction is good (I currently do so on my journeys both to and from work)

i dont know how you do that two ways but i salute you for it!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i dont know how you do that two ways but i salute you for it!

trains from my bit of berkshire to london cross the river at staines and twickenham

 

[RubyToogood]

Chelsea Bridge. The gateway to South London.

Surely all Thames bridges are the gateway to South London. And indeed North London.

?

 

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On a similar vain, Ive always known Balham as gateway to the South, which it has been known as for many years.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

On a similar vain, Ive always known Balham as gateway to the South, which it has been known as for many years.

 

[peterkro]

In case anyone has a source for this this there's a book called "the ladies bridge" (Waterloo was apparently build by women during the second world war) I'd like to get hold of.
I have a friend who tried to write a paper on it but information is hard to come by.

 

[laptop]

In case anyone has a source for this this there's a book called "the ladies bridge" (Waterloo was apparently build by women during the second world war) I'd like to get hold of.
I have a friend who tried to write a paper on it but information is hard to come by.

Oooohh...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...t-was-built-largely-by-women-11004076/?no-ist

 

[lang rabbie]

It looks as though Karen Livesey who made the documentary has ceased to maintain the website she set up to promote it.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...k/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

 

[Bungle73]

There are several books available that tell the history of London's bridges. I have this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cross-River...417261640&sr=8-1&keywords=Cross+river+traffic

There's also an audio tour of the Central London bridges which you can download, and that I have done myself a couple of times: http://www.citiesinsound.com/London-s-Bridges-Audio-Walk-s/1837.htm

 

[BCBlues]

Surely all Thames bridges are the gateway to South London. And indeed North London.

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On a similar vain, Ive always known Balham as gateway to the South, which it has been known as for many years.

Its a personal thing with me, I travel down regular on the 137 bus. When we cross the river it feels like we are entering South London.
Its nothing to do with the football team i support either, well maybe a little bit, but the view of Battersea Power Station one side and Albert Bridge the other take some beating.
I dont get the same feeling when i use the other routes ( 45 or 59 amongst others).

 

[T & P]

I walked on the Millenium Bridge at the weekend and noticed some twats have copied Paris lovebirds and attached padlocks to the structure. I hope they all get dumped forthwith.

 

[Ponyutd]

Charing Cross bridge in the fog. Monet.

 

[Ponyutd]

Sam bridge by Pissarro

 

[RubyToogood]

Sam bridge by Pissarro

What's the Gothic pile on the right?

 

[Crispy]

What's the Gothic pile on the right?

Whitehall Court, now the Royal Horseguards Hotel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Horseguards_Hotel

 

[editor]

The mighty Albert Bridge

In photos: The fragile beauty of the Albert Bridge at night, south west London -

Connecting Chelsea in the north to Battersea on the south, the Albert Bridge was opened in 1873, and is now an English Heritage Grade II listed building. Along with Tower Bridge, the Albert Bridge is the only Thames road bridge in central London never to have been replaced, although it's now the...

www.urban75.org

 

[RoyReed]

The mighty Albert Bridge

I think the lighting is better now they've replaced the old incandescent bulbs with LEDs. This was taken in 2006.

 

[RoyReed]

Southwark Bridge is pretty nicely lit at night as well.

 

[RoyReed]

The Jubilee footbridge is pretty good as well.

 

[Maggot]

New series starts on Channel 5 tomorrow (6 Jan) at 8 on London's bridges.

Link here but not much detail.

My5

www.channel5.com