Title

Tower Bridge, London, c1889

Caption

Tower Bridge, London, c1889. It was begun in 1881 and opened in 1894, to designs by Sir Horace Jones. It was designed so that the central section could be raised to allow the passage of ships to and from the busy wharves of London.

Date

1889

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A77_088

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (1,5Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4950 x 3815 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation river building buildings London England River Thames Thames technology boat boats engineering ship ships bridge geography wharf docks dock innovation location century Tower Bridge concept B&W MONOCHROME under construction metaphor bridging the gap Construction Industry 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Southwark nineteenth century English Heritage across the divide building a bridge geographical feature TGN photograph Unknown Jones Horace Jones Sir Horace Horace Sir Horace Jones Horace Jones photograph