Sujet

View of the busy Thames looking towards Tower Bridge, London, c1920. Artist: Unknown

Légende

View of the busy Thames looking towards Tower Bridge, London, c1920. The construction of Tower Bridge was begun in 1881 to designs by Sir Horace Jones and it opened in 1894. 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

1905

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_057

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,1Mo) / 40,2cm x 31,1cm / 4752 x 3678 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river water building buildings London England River Thames Thames architecture boat boats industry country ship ships bridge British crane cranes geography English wharf docks dock innovation location Victorian century barge Tower Bridge Britain concept civil engineering riverbank twenties B&W moored MONOCHROME road bridge bascule bridge shipping Industry steamship 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W 1920s 20th century nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery geographical feature TGN photograph Unknown Jones Horace Jones Sir Horace Horace Sir Horace Jones