Sujet

View of Tower Bridge under construction with river traffic in the foreground, London, c1893. Artist: Unknown

Légende

View of Tower Bridge under construction with river traffic in the foreground, London, c1893. 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

1893

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_060

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (1,7Mo) / 44,0cm x 28,5cm / 5195 x 3365 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river water building buildings London England River Thames Thames architecture boat boats country bridge British geography English castle fortification innovation location Victorian century barge Tower Bridge Britain concept civil engineering Tower of London riverbank B&W MONOCHROME under construction metaphor road bridge bascule bridge Construction Industry 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Southwark nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery geographical feature TGN Thames barge work in progress sailing barge photograph Unknown Jones Horace Jones Sir Horace Horace Sir Horace Jones